Word: budgeteering
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Finally, the plan would encourage decentralization by permitting more decision making at the regional or agency level. Wayne Granquist, an official in the Office of Management and Budget who helped devise the plan, likes to cite the example of the forest ranger who is sent into the woods of Oregon for a wildlife census. Since he is in what is called a remote area, he is entitled to an extra $12 a week. But this modest increase in pay must be approved all the way up the line from district to regional to national headquarters of the U.S. Forest Service...
Bert Lance's continuing ties with his old friend Jimmy Carter are well known in the U.S., but on foreign trips the former budget chief can flash more tangible evidence of his White House clout: a diplomatic passport bearing the serial number X-000065 and the assertion, "The bearer is abroad on a diplomatic assignment for the Government of the United States of America." As it happens. Lance's most recent missions abroad, including a trip to London and the Middle East to help Arab interests angling for control of a $2.2 billion bank holding company in the Washington...
Edward L. Keenan '57, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said Thursday the bill would place added strain on the University's budget by forcing it to keep tenured faculty on at full salary for as much as four years past the current retirement...
...annual budget of $97 million in 1950, for which only the most general accounting had to be given during Allen's years in control. From the di rector's own discretionary fund, he dispensed $30,000 a year to one member of the French Cabinet and once handed him $500,000 to distribute among fellow members of the Chamber. Allen lavished secret funds on Saudi Arabia, including money that may have gone for the virgins and small boys King Saud fancied. Said one former agent: "He was never against the unclean side of intelligence, so long...
Those were the days when the VES department was young (it started in 1968) and when Dean Rosovsky allowed it more money each year in order to get on its feet. Now that the yearly departmental budget is not rising fast enough to cover even inflation, the video scene has changed considerably...