Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond that, the Government has stepped up its annual research budget for electrics from $200,000 in the early 1970s to $35 million proposed for fiscal 1979, mostly to search for low-cost, lightweight, long-range batteries. All DOE will predict is that "there will be a significant number" of electrics around by the year 2000. Fill 'er up, sir? Naw, plug it again...
...just want to be a part of the stable of available power." To that end, the agency will soon build similar pilot projects on Culebra Island, Puerto Rico, and Block Island, R.I., and plans a 2,000-kw. model for Boone. N.C. The Federal Government wind-energy budget has ballooned to $38 million (a few privately owned turbines already serve remote mountain and island locations). Government experts estimate optimistically that wind power will furnish at least 3% of the nation's electricity by the year...
...preacher in Carter spoke up for economic and social equity at every budget turn. To tax business lunches and first-class air travel was not worth the political battle and probable defeat, Carter was advised. So what, he answered. It is not right that businessmen can deduct their martinis if workmen cannot deduct their sandwiches. And, said Carter, he had campaigned all over the country for two years riding in tourist seats, and he found room in which to do his work...
Many of Carter's budget decisions came down on the side of the young, the black, the poor, the small businessman. Small was beautiful, large was suspect. Yet the mathematician in Carter dragged him to the understanding that he had to entice corporate America to greater efforts through tax incentives. The welfare of Ms little people depended...
Through all the budget process, there was the note that Carter was not fully convinced that Government could really deliver many of the thousands of promises that its budget said it could. So a zero dropped here, a restraint applied there sounded the most persistent theme. He wants to show the American people that his Government will try to stay out of their lives as much as possible...