Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School Committee fear some conflicts with Danehy. The main issues confronting the committee these days are the development of an alternative public high school, achieving a racial balance in the city schools, and choosing an affirmative action officer for the schools. And in the always-difficult question of the budget, Wolf withholds her predictions on how Danehy will handle these questions...
...death of "Old 75," the elm on the White House grounds [Jan. 16], should remind us all that the environmental movement has yet to make a real impact on Congress or the White House. Lack of budget support for forestry research and management is a national disgrace. We lose more trees to insects and disease every year than we do to forest fires...
...effort to restore the CIA'S esteem, reorganize the U.S. intelligence community, and deflect further criticism from the agency, President Carter last week signed an Executive order that places all nine U.S. intelligence agencies under the direct budget control and loose coordination of one man: CIA Director Stansfield Turner, 54. Incorporated in the order were sharp curbs on the kinds of clandestine practices that brought the CIA much of its criticism...
...director, as his title suggests, a certain degree of authority over all the intelligence agencies; he was charged with "coordinating" their activities. But he only loosely performed that function. The new executive order considerably enhances the director's authority and responsibility. He has control of the total intelligence budget (an estimated $7 billion a year) and the right to give assignments to all the agencies. Turner's position ultimately depends on the power realities of Washington and his own abilities...
...Budget: (1978) est. $800 million Employees: est. 20,000 Mission: To collect foreign intelligence and provide support for other U.S. intelligence agencies. Domestic intelligence activities must be coordinated with FBI and have approval of the Attorney General...