Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Millions of Americans are treated the same way. As a rule, mentally ill people are no more likely than their neighbors to be violent. But untreated mental illness can have horrific results. Andrew Goldstein asked to be hospitalized in New York because he was terrified of phantom voices. Instead, budget-conscious officials most often referred him to short-term emergency care. Last year, in a psychotic state, he shoved a woman from a subway platform to her death under the wheels of a train...
...Senate is in recess (Senators are now enjoying a 10-day Memorial Day break). His action puts Hormel in the job until the end of the next Senate session, which conveniently coincides with the end of the Clinton presidency. With Republicans currently in disarray over how to enact their budget- and tax-cutting agenda, reports TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson, the President decided this could be an easy political pickup for him at little political cost -- and with solid appeal to some of his more liberal constituencies. "Clinton knows Republicans can't spend much time screaming about this," says Dickerson...
...delays holding up the U.S.-led International Space Station, the Americans have been pushing for this for a while," he says. "It should have happened three years ago, but the Russians kept it taped together until now out of pride." Chuckle not, NASA -- the ISS, already late and over budget before it's even habitable, should have half Mir's luck. "Say what we will about Mir's jalopy days, next spring will be 14 years for a station intended to last only five," says Kluger. "Most of those years were smooth and uneventful." Now Mir's current crew will...
...actor Billy Baldwin. The program is part p.r., part guilt alleviation for well-heeled New Yorkers and part real insight into the New York City school system, which is the nation's largest, with 1,136 schools, more than a million students, 63,000 teachers and an annual budget bigger than the combined military spending of nato's three newest members: $8.9 billion...
...million Annual budget for Justice's antitrust division...