Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Superintendent John Beckwith was perplexed. Sears, Kenilworth's lone school, had never asked for any HEW money to supplement its $1.2 million budget. Beckwith wrote a letter to Washington explaining that since this was so, he saw no reason to spend 60 to 80 hours filling out the exhaustive questionnaire...
...more militant promoters of the farm strike demand that the Government boost price props so much that the price of wheat and corn would about double, cattle would go up 69% and hogs 47%. Doing that, warn Government agricultural experts, would bust the budget, raise domestic supermarket prices and squeeze U.S. farm products out of foreign markets. But the Carter Administration has made no effort to squelch the farmers' protests or strike plans. Says Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland: "I've talked to the President. The protests are a legitimate expression of concern. We're watching with sympathy...
...home cooking comes at a time when Americans are eating out more often than ever before. With increasing numbers of women at work, and with fast food readily available at almost any street corner or crossroads, the average family is spending as much as 25% of its annual food budget (a nationwide total of $215 billion a year) on restaurant and instant meals?which also have greatly improved in recent years. It may be that when family and friends get together for a home-cooked dinner, they pit their skills against the pros and make it a repast to remember...
...tandem, other juices than those of the good beef flow. Says Julia Child: "The family that cooks together, stays together." The man in the kitchen soon learns to appreciate the degree of love and labor that his wife puts into the feeding of a family?and where the household budget goes. New Jersey Cookmates Joyce and Louis Harvey say they could never get divorced: "Who would get the Cuisinart, and who the KitchenAid mixer...
...year-old councilor stressed that Dukakis's fiscal conservatism has hurt the cities and towns of Massachusetts as well as the citizens of the state. "There is no question that local education and public hospitals have suffered because of Dukakis's balanced budget," she said...