Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent athletic budget cuts at the University of Pennsylvania raise the possibility of a similar scenario occurring at other Ivy institutions. The aggressive, organized response of Penn students to the elimination of several athletic teams points up a related question with respect to Harvard: In the absence of a crisis, how much input do students have into our athletic department...
...Institute also administers summer grants for thesis-related research in the government sector to eligible juniors. McKey said that 20 students received grants last year out of an applicant pool of 65. He added that because of a budget cut this year the number of grants should be approximately...
...hold what the State Department calls "courtesy" diplomatic passports, although by law they are available only to former Presidents, Vice Presidents, Chief Justices, Cabinet members and career ambassadors. Yet Lance's passport is not the courtesy model but the one he got when he was running Carter's budget office. Passport Office staffers say Carter wanted Lance to keep his special passport because "he may be sending Lance on a diplomatic mission." That argument was not convincing to Frances Knight, the former chief of the Passport Office. "If I had been there, he would never have gotten it," she huffed...
Stagflation contributes to high unemployment; many economists are seeking new ways of coping with the hard-core aspects of that problem, which is concentrated among the often unskilled young, blacks and Hispanics, and housewives seeking to supplement their families' incomes. In his budget proposal, President Carter asked for $400 million in grants to firms that hire and train unskilled people, mainly in the 18-to-24 age bracket. Even conservative business leaders have told the President that the sum is too small to make much impact...
...prevent just that, the U.S. would use the new borrowings to buy its own money. This would give the dollar at least a temporary lift and allow the U.S. time to reduce its budget and trade deficits and to enact a policy for developing and conserving energy-all of which will be necessary to restore America's currency to its old eminence...