Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usual," says TIME correspondent Bruce Van Voorst, who has been tracking the deal. "He'll play the game, but if there's no bill he'll simply blame the Republicans." Which explains Clinton's staggering announcement that the settlement's tobacco revenues would be included in the new budget -- thus linking the phantom deal to all sorts of government goodies for voting Americans. "If they don't happen," says Van Voorst, "Well, the Republicans blew it. And, then Clinton can call them the party of Big Tobacco money...
...poll, taken in conjunction with last month's council elections, drew 2,004 responses. Currently each student has the option to pay a $20 term bill fee to support the council. The council disburses a budget of more than $160,000 per annum towards grants to student groups, student services and events...
Opponents of the grant--sponsored by C. Thomas Brown '99, Eric M. Nelson '99 and Beth A. Stewart '00--said the council should not support an organization that withholds funds that would otherwise contribute to the general University budget. They likend the grant to one to a group whose purpose was to "burn down Hollis Hall...
...high schoolers, since the only way you could fail was by running over the instructor's cat. According to Allen Robinson, CEO of the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association, 15 years ago, nearly 90% of all new drivers had taken an official driver's education course. With budget cuts chopping the course out of many public schools, that figure is down to 50%, perhaps...
...spent what must have been an uncomfortable 25 minutes on the phone as translators relayed Clinton?s demand that Suharto immediately implement an International Monetary Fund austerity program that Indonesia agreed to last October. Earlier, Suharto had seemed oblivious to the crisis when he sparked panic by announcing a budget woven of pure fantasy. The job of leaning on Indonesia now falls to Deputy Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Defense Secretary William Cohen, who both visit Jakarta and other Asian capitals this week, along with a senior IMF delegation...