Word: budgets
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Huidekoper gives a small now-and-then example. Now a department at Harvard can buy a $500,000 computer and report the entire expense, which could, for instance, offset a budget surplus. After the new systems are in place, all of Harvard's tubs will use generally accepted accounting practices. With the computer, the department would then be required to spread its cost out over the years it will be used...
While creating this report, the center also began forming three-year budget projections. Before this year, the budget was planned from year to year...
...some to throw out the entire affirmative action system rather than fix its faults could lead to the demise of the decades-old promise of federal funds for higher education; members of the 1994 Republican revolution nearly demolished the entire system of support in a single swipe of the budget...
While violence tightens the deadlock in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, there appears to be some progress on the Israel-Syria front (TIME Daily) ... The Democratic Party's top lawyer has defended Al Gore's controversial White House fundraising phone calls (AllPolitics) ... A budget bill provision that was effectively funding the tobacco industry has been struck down (TIME Daily) ...Rocky Actor Burgess Meredith has died at the age of 89 (TIME Daily) ... Former Clinton cabinet member Mike Espy has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges ... (Reuters) ... As for Clinton himself, what has he learned in four-and-a-half years about...
...Scotland will decide on two initiatives that could give the kingdom its first parliament since 1707. One would create a separate Scottish Parliament; another would give that body the power to levy taxes. If a parliament is created, it would administer Scotland's share of the UK government budget, currently $22.5 billion. That appears to be enough for locals, who support the idea of a parliament but balk at it actually having any power over their wallets...