Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole package is too inflationary. Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Charles Schultze and Budget Director Bert Lance feared that taxes on gasoline and big cars, as well as provisions to force industry to install more efficient heating equipment and to switch from gas or oil to coal, would add dangerously to prices. Walter Heller, a member of the TIME Board of Economists, believes there should be measures to neutralize the program's inflationary effects, like cutting payroll taxes for employers...
...will rely chiefly on voluntary restraint by labor and management to keep prices down. At Carter's invitation, AFL-CIO President George Meany and General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones will help coordinate the private sector's antiinflation efforts. For its part, the Government will try to balance the budget by 1981, hold down unnecessary spending, moderate fluctuations in food supplies and other basic commodities, and slow increases in hospital costs...
...activist, it is not, of course, enough to make proposals; it is necessary to get them accepted and make them work. On that score, so far, the evidence is mixed. Carter sometimes apparently makes the assumption that if he merely quietly states some virtuous purpose (balancing the budget, abolishing nuclear arms), it will be accomplished...
Welcome has all the earmarks of a big-budget, big studio release, and the visuals are no exception. Director of photography Dave Myers shot all the scenes in exclusively natural colors and light, and the richness and clarity of the hues are striking. For this reviewer, the acid test of a movie's cinematography and lighting effects lies in whether specific scenes linger in the memory and can be readily brought to mind as an instant association with the mere mention of the title. Welcome fills this bill of particulars admirably; look for the shot of Carradine at a piano...
...that year, they say, Quebec received from the federal government $3 billion more than it contributed. Of course, separatists must also consider the costs they would incur if they were to form an independent nation. Such responsibilities as maintenance of foreign embassies and defense bite heavily into the budget of independent states...