Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fury should have been DePalma's goony epic. The ingredients include a pair of telekinetic teenagers (double Carrie's load), nefarious international spy organizations, a dastardly Bond-style villain, a goofily bloated score by John Williams, a delightfully eccentric group of players, and a mammoth budget--courtesy of schlock-producer Frank Yablans. The movie fails not because it's so gory, and not even because DePalma cruelly lingers over the deaths of our favorite characters (although this is annoying), but because the storyline is so slack. Screenwriter John Farris has plotted the film with routine situations that are unworthy...
...crisis. After Andreotti becomes Premier for the fourth time this week, he plans to cut spending, increase tariffs, curb wage hikes and channel more funds to private investors through loans and tax incentives in order to spur industrial development. He will also try to close a projected $10 billion budget gap by reducing such benefits as medical care and pensions...
...home. Now overseas observers see the U.S. bragging that its economy is growing at one of the fastest rates in the industrial world, yet whining fearfully that inflation is likely to result. The spectacle is compounded by the nation's refusal either to cut its $61 billion budget deficit (despite Jimmy Carter's pledge to do so) or to institute a tough wage-price policy to cope with the inflation threat...
Inflation and the refusal of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to increase its financial support of the school by the necessary amount caused most of the deficit. After numerous budget-trimming measures, proposed tuition increases and the previous cutbacks, Pennsylvania still faced a potentially crippling deficit for the upcoming fiscal year...
...more dramatic concessions was the administration's agreement not to raise tuition for 1978-79 above $4,825--the level the university's budget committee recommended on February 22. As a result of an increasingly bleak financial picture, there had been talk of another tuition hike besides the $375 hike already announced. But administrators have now agreed not to push for a further increase...