Word: budgeters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were confirmed, the country was moving to confront itself about the SALT treaty, its military strength and its world leadership role. The Cuban episode will force a strategic review that will appraise Soviet intentions from the Persian Gulf to Panama, and American policy will be hardened in the new budget that takes shape before Christmas...
...deploy long-range Pershing II and cruise missiles on their soil; so far only Britain and West Germany have accepted in principle. For another, the U.S. would like to ensure that all countries of Western Europe match its own new defense expenditures, currently set at a 3% military budget increase...
...Treasury. That could give Congress the idea that the agency's appropriation was too large in the first place and lead to a reduction the following year. Says former Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal: "More money is wasted in the Federal Government in the last two months of the budget year than in the previous ten months...
This year the offensive against the September surge is particularly strong. Budget Director James McIntyre last month fired off to all agencies the most detailed memo yet on "controlling year-end buying," even including guidelines for buying furniture. At the next Cabinet meeting, probably this week, McIntyre, with the President's blessing, will warn that departments that shovel out money late this year will risk having their budgets reduced next year...
Still, eliminating the ritual will be difficult even with the best of will. Two years ago, former HEW Secretary Joseph Califano put out a tough warning against an eleventh-hour spree. Later studies showed that 77% of Califano's printing budget for his own Office of the Secretary was spent in, yes, September...