Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, complained that the Administration was making congressional Democrats look like wild spenders in other avoidable ways. He argued that the White House, by overestimating revenues, had made it appear that its proposed budget for fiscal 1978 was $6.5 billion less than the one Congress had in mind. In fact, claimed Muskie, the Administration's budget was only $1 billion less than the Hill's. Said the Senator: "We'd appreciate more accuracy so we won't look so bad. We should both have the same estimates...
Inauguration, Budget Chief Bert Lance suggested to U.S. Steel Chairman Edgar Speer that the company's proposed price increase for tin-mill products was too high; Speer trimmed it to 4.8%. At week's end, officials of the United Steelworkers Union approved a new three-year contract that provides for an 800-an-hour increase over the life of the agreement. It also makes a modest start toward guaranteeing steelworkers lifetime job security. Union and company spokesmen disagreed on whether the contract, which needs rank-and-file approval, was inflationary...
...latest crime-fighting techniques, and hired a number of plainclothes "special agents" to investigate campus crime. At the same time, Gorski began an efficiency drive to complement the new "no-nonsense" image, placing a de facto freeze on new hiring for the force and devoting more of the police budget to "scientific hardware...
Although HCO owns the building and the grounds and SAO pays rent, SAO is the larger of the Center's two parts. SAO's budget totals $11 million yearly, of which four million dollars comes directly from the Smithsonian Institution. HCO has an annual budget of four million dollars, including $250,000 from its own endowment...
Most of each observatory's budget comes from grants and contracts from federal agencies--mainly NASA and the National Science Foundation. Though each of the observatories maintains its own financial and administrative structure, scientists pay no attention to those structures while conducting research. SAO and HCO scientists have offices interspersed on the same halls, and they consult each other without considering which observatory they draw pay from. Many at the Center hold appointments with both groups. Field, the Center's director, is also director of SAO and HCO. But even he cannot delineate exactly where each of the observatories begins...