Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...willing clearing house, investigating and recommending the best medical care in the area. But the student must spend his own time searching down his physician or surgeon, and, most important of all, he must face the prospect of paying specialists' bills, no minor item, out of his own budget. Additional financial burdens forced on the bedridden undergraduate include a special fee for all services at Stillman beyond a certain short stay (which is covered by the $15 semester medical fee) and the expense of all medicinals used by the patient while on out-patient treatment. Unlike many colleges, Harvard...
...Administration bring out as solid policy a compensatory fiscal program (i.e., high taxes in good years with widespread debt retirement, lower taxes in baa years with added debt if necessary). To citizens haunted by the U.S.'s massive debt and tlie inflationary influences of an unbalanced budget, it looked good. But to politicians, a compensatory fiscal program has no campaign sex appeal. By election time Congressmen may decide that a tax cut is a better campaign approach...
...their old rival, was in the United Nations' doghouse, while Salazar, in spite of his anti-democratic sympathies, had pursued throughout World War II a serpentine policy whose final tack was enough in the Allies' direction to earn their tolerance, if not their approval. The Portuguese national budget, thanks to Salazar, was always balanced these days. (It had shown a deficit in 68 of the 70 years before 1928.) Portugal's exports were much higher than before the war; her merchant marine was about to double its tonnage and her fishing fleet was expanding. Portugal...
...tape that keeps patients out of hospitals permits Lisbon's director of public health to gain credit with budget-minded Salazar by returning part of his appropriation to the national treasury each year...
...Music Center's first season after a three-year war layoff, Koussevitzky & staff have handpicked 410 musicians, the majority under 30, from the U.S., Latin America and Canada. The summer's $100,000 budget is paid off by tuition fees (averaging $120 a student), ticket sales to festival concerts, and gifts. More than 100 students are there under the G.I. Bill of Rights. Aaron Copland, Koussevitzky's assistant director, trains eight young composers. Koussevitzky himself teaches three people how to conduct. At weekend concerts he listens carefully to their conducting efforts. Says he: "I see if they...