Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College has not, however, raised its tuition in order to balance the budget, as have several other departments of the University, such as the Business School. Before the war, the College was attempting to lower the cost of living at Harvard. By maintaining tuition and room charges at their prewar levels, and by holding board rises to a fraction of the nationwide jump in food prices, the College has in effect achieved its goal. It costs less to live at Harvard now, in preparation to living costs throughout the country, than it did before the war. It also costs less...
What they have done helps immeasurably in relieving one of the chronic features of the University's semi-annual publication-its brevity. Always, the excuse for the large number of completely in adequate course descriptions (title, lecturer, day, time, and nothing else) has beene the catalogue's slim budget and the rigid schedule of space limitations for individual departments. In fact, the course summaries that this new pamphlet includes were originally intended for the latest edition of the catalogue, but were crowded out by the space shortage...
...House got in the first and most serious licks. Its Foreign Affairs Committee, in a turbulent closed meeting, tentatively agreed to recommend a bill authorizing an expenditure of only $489 million. Italy's budget would bear the brunt of this slash. All told, Italy would be cut $87 million (from $227 to $140 million), on the grounds that 1) her farmers were hoarding around a million tons of wheat, and 2) her outlook for olive oil production was much improved...
...Pakistan's government had a budget, no one could find out what it was. The country started off with about 200,000,000 rupees ($60,000,000) from the Reserve Bank of India, but that was long since spent. Two weeks ago the British Overseas Airways Corp. was paid by Pakistan Government check on the Bank of India for transporting 30,000 officials and their families from Delhi to Karachi. The check bounced. B.O.A.C. subsequently got its money, but other creditors are still waiting anxiously. Civil servants in Karachi have had their salaries cut and their housing allowances stopped...
...such worthy agencies, has been able to garner just a bit more than half that amount, despite a two-month campaign that will end on Sunday. Usually, seven-dollar-per-man pledges were signed by the great majority of men at registration in the fall, the money collected, the budget balanced. But this year for some reason, that has not been the case...