Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even in a state budget crisis there are huge white lights hanging from almost every tree in Boston Common, where sleigh rides take weary shoppers on a snowless ride through the city's center. A Christmas tree and menorah keep up the pretense of holiday cheer inside the gold-topped State House, where carollers sing while a weary legislature trims a budget rather than a tree...
...debate opened with Senate President William Bulger (D-Boston) calling it "a good first step" toward closing an $825 million gap in the state budget...
...contained several controversial measures, many of which addressed long-term spending on the state's "budget busters"--five mandated programs that make up $4.2 billion dollars of the $12 billion budget...
...committee agreed with $89 million in line-item cuts targeted by the Dukakis administration, added $16 million in cuts of its own and asked the governor to trim an additional $34 million from the budget...
CREDIT: SOURCE: DEFENSE BUDGET PROJECT (NATO ESTIMATES)/TIME CHART BY CYNTHIA DAVIS...