Word: budgeteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This time the request was for $22 billion, a part of the military's total budget of $80 billion for fiscal 1970. The bill was a mere five pages long, which figures to about $22 million a word. Included in the Pentagon package was the Nixon Administration's controversial ABM system, which just barely squeaked by in the Senate by a 51-50 vote. The narrow margin of victory on its major section spelled trouble for the balance of the bill. Last week, before the Senate's adjournment until after Labor Day, other sections of the bill...
...Another budget slash, sponsored by William Fulbright, reduced research funds by $46 million. The Arkansas liberal, who for years has complained that much of the research is irrelevant, mocked the Defense Department's projects by ticking off some that have already been funded, including studies of "Militant Hindu Nationalism-The Early Phase" and "The Chinese Warlord System: 1916 to 1928." Fulbright's amendment also specified that the Pentagon cannot use funds to research any nonmilitary subjects...
...only the politicians who improve the world so gradually that nobody can see the improvement. The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into...
Atlanta has requested but not received state funds for its four-quarter project. As a result, it is paying more than $1,000,000 beyond its regular $71 million school budget for the summer quarter. School officials maintain nonetheless that the city's fast-growing industries-and thus the city itself-will benefit financially when vacations are spread more evenly over the entire year. Until this year, most working parents took vacations in the summer, when their children were out of school, resulting in summertime business slowdowns and production losses. Another advantage of the summer quarter lies in providing...
...Budget Cut. At the center of the controversy is the embattled Small Business Administration, which was supposed to have been the primary financier, cheerleader and quarterback of black capitalism. The Government's general budget hold-down has forced the SBA to cut its loans. Funds for the SBA's four main loan programs were reduced from $554 million last year to $253 million in the current fiscal year...