Word: budgeteering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...astounded that your Essay can address the question of battling inflation without mentioning our enormous military budget. TIME is daydreaming to expect any significant progress in combatting inflation without important cuts in that swiller of federal money...
...somewhere will write something on the Italianization of its box office idols. John Travolta's disco-dancing Tony has joined Sylvester Stallone's Rocky as one of America's favorite silver screen heroes, and the similarities between the two films do not end there. There is the same low-budget feel to "Saturday Night Fever"--the obscure director, in this case a fellow named John Badham who seems bent on dazzling his audiences with bizarre camera angles when the mere sight of Travolta on a dance floor would have been enough; and the same schmaltz-filled discovery of love...
...that was just one of the many problems this winter. Snow removal, which cost $90,000 this year--almost twice the normal budget for keeping the University lots clean--put a severe cramp in the budget...
...problem is not that the P.Q. has a pleasant or an unpleasant post-independence direction; rather, the problem is that it has no clear direction. The party's program promises such reforms as a guaranteed annual income and free post-secondary education, but its policies and its budget in particular have been remarkably conservative since the P.Q. took power. Unless the party can provide a clear post-independence direction, it threatens to subject the new country's economy to the economic pressures which invariably accompany political turmoil...
...Harvard's investments. In addition to setting up the Harvard Management Company, Bok brought in four new vice presidents, including Hale Champion, to handle financial affairs. Bok also brought in Daniel Steiner '54 to be general counsel to the University. Last year the University showed a small but welcome budget surplus, and according to Putnam the Harvard portfolio is one of the most well-managed and carefully-watched of al university portfolios. The current annual rate of return on the market value of Harvard's endowment is 5.2 per cent, which may not outrun inflation, but is still considered respectable...