Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carolina, killing its pilot. Just two weeks before that, another pilot was killed when his plane dove into the Atlantic off the North Carolina coast after having performed its feat of hummingbird derring-do from the carrier Saratoga for an audience that included Navy Secretary W. Graham Claytor and Budget Director Bert Lance. Financial losses on the Hawk-er-Siddeley planes, which now cost $3.4 million each, so far have totaled $60 million...
...billion in foreign reserves and record wheat stockpiles. But the Janata regime is hamstrung by internal wrangling. Squabbles over patronage have left many ministerial posts vacant. "I have no time for policymaking because I have no help," moans a minister. One result is that Desai's first budget virtually duplicates that of the former Congress government. Inflation (now 2% a month) and shortages of key commodities (edible oil and cotton) have stirred labor unrest...
...effect, a reduction in the standard of living. Witteveen, to be sure, denies that the IMF imposes its will on creditor countries; "consultation" is all that it asks, he claims. The distinction is largely semantic: the IMF may not tell a borrowing country how much to cut its budget or how much to raise taxes, but it can keep refusing a loan until officials come up with budget-balancing measures that satisfy Fund directors. Says one official of the West German Finance Ministry: "Where it would be impossible for us or the Americans to bring real pressure on Italy...
...that would require 9.5% of all oil imported into the U.S. to be carried by U.S.-flag ships by 1982, v. 3.9% now. Most of Carter's advisers-in the Treasury Department, the Council of Economic Advisers, the State Department, the Defense Department, the Office of Management and Budget-are against the bill. They fear it would aggravate inflation by forcing the use of more expensive U.S. ships with highly paid crews: it costs $14,300 a day to run a 90,000-ton U.S. ship, v. $9,700 for the same size Liberian-flag freighter. Further, critics...
...feels guilty, something of a crosspatch, for raising even a minor caveat about this engaging, low-key, low-budget movie, full of nice people, bouncy car chases, vroomy racing sequences. Scott is played with a sort of quizzical intelligence by Richard Pryor in a performance very different from his equally effective role as the jivey thief in Silver Streak. There is about Pryor, and the picture as a whole, both earnestness and the sense to throw it away; though if you stop to think, Scott's career-even if it was not precisely as set forth in the film...