Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evaluating our Navy, we should recall some of its famous mottoes: "Don't give up the dollars," "I have not yet begun to spend," and "Damn the budget cuts, full shipbuilding ahead." Then there is that service's great battle hymn: "Billions away, my boy, billions away...
...held things together in the last days of Watergate. Almost every day, former Secretary of the Treasury Bill Simon gets letters offering, indeed pleading, to help finance a Simon candidacy. In Iowa, Governor Robert Ray stands at a staggering 82% approval with his electorate-and he balances the budget. Reporters press him with the big question. No, he says, he likes Iowa...
...January the Administration put $400 million into the CETA budget to start business-conducted training programs. Some of this money will be paid to the employer to make up the difference between a trainee's worth and his wage. Last week the Administration followed up with a more generous plan: tax credits for companies that hire the hard-core unemployed, up to $2,000 for each person put to work. The cost could be $1.5 billion a year. This week President Carter will entertain 140 business and black leaders at a White House dinner and plead with them...
...sizable group of over-50s, discreetly known as the "matures." To watch them challenge the Hudson, a crowd of some 15,000 descended on North Creek, an outpost in the Adirondacks that welcomed the attention and the money. There was free camping for all comers, and budget-priced breakfasts cooked by the Boy Scouts, roast-beef dinners served up by the Methodists and snacks sold along the riverbank by the volunteer firemen. "It's the area's biggest economic weekend of the year," said Martin Wicks, whose bar dispensed 1,500 bottles of beer...
...large, Republican board members-Greenspan, Sprinkel and Washington University's Murray Weidenbaum -figure that unless the Government can reduce the growth of spending and the budget deficit, Carter's latest anti-inflation campaign, aimed at jawboning down prices and wages, will fail. Indeed, Weidenbaum argues that the Administration's drive is making businessmen fearful of sterner price guidelines ahead. So they are motivated to raise now "rather than be caught with their prices down...