Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...single faculty budget funds the 1170 computers and the terminals, used primarily without charge by students. The new terminals will cost about $500,000, Law said...
...when he said on Friday that Boston's racial climate, rather than the school system, was responsible for explosions of racial hate that burned throughout the city this week. But though his analysis of the cause of tensions is correct, his solution--a $100,000 addition to the school budget for more security personnel--offers no more than a thimbleful of relief to the thousands of Bostonians affected by their neighbors' renewed hostilities...
...Paul II, and his key topic was abortion. In the windswept Washington congregation of 175,000 sat Chief Justice Warren Burger, who concurred with the opinion that struck down all antiabortion laws. In the distance was the Capitol, where Congress had long been ensnarled in a nearly $500 billion budget impasse over abortion funding. Declared John Paul: "We will stand up every time that human life is threatened. When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, we will stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life...
...also sinking megabucks into research. Bell Labs will spend $1 billion on research this year, with large amounts going to develop fiber optics -systems that carry information in rays of light traveling through slender glass fibers rather than in electric currents moving through bulky cables. IBM's research budget this year will be $1.25 billion, and the company has become the first to master the mass production of a silicon memory chip small enough to pass through the eye of a needle yet able to store 64,000 bits of information. Bell & Howell's Frey maintains...
...platinum, by the pound. He was also the creator of the modern research and development lab, which he called an "invention factory." He was the first to hire a team of scientists and technicians and set them to work systematically producing innovations. But his inability to stay within a budget would speedily get him fired from any corporate lab today, if his spectacular untidiness did not discourage the lab from hiring him in the first place...