Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal Office of Education late this week provided the happy ending for about 150 Radcliffe students looking for jobs. The government allowed Harvard to transfer $20,000 of its work-study budget to Radcliffe to relieve the school's strapped work-study program...
...When Dukakis was elected in 1974 he created a fantasy that if he became governor the state budget deficit would disappear, and the frightening thing is that he believed it," Guzzi said...
...kind of warmup talk to the Communications Workers of America at a White House reception, "The inflation rate is creeping up. And unless we stand firm, cut out waste, have a sound economy, stabilize the dollar, have the energy package passed, cut down unnecessary spending and hold down the budget deficit, we are all going to be robbed of the [economic] improvements we made with your help during the last year...
...drastic policy, Carter was expected to announce a series of small but symbolic, and concrete, steps that the Government would take in order to set an example of anti-inflationary restraint for the rest of the nation. Some probable highlights of the talk: > A pledge to hold the federal budget for fiscal 1979 within the targeted $60 billion range. That would at least imply a threat to veto any spending bill that seems likely to push the deficit higher. Leading candidate for a Presidential turndown: a farm bill that would pay grain and cotton farmers subsidies on an escalating scale...
...advertising. The Supreme Court declined to review a lower court decision upholding a 1975 Federal Trade Commission order: the company must not only stop making the claim but specifically advertise that it is not true. In its next $10 million worth of Listerine ads-about a year's budget-Warner-Lambert must insert this statement: "Listerine will not help prevent colds or sore throats or lessen their severity." In the course of its review, which began in 1972, the FTC found that Listerine was no more effective in combatting colds than warm water. Doubtless Warner-Lambert will bury...