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...
Both the report and the new budget planning process reflect an effort by the center to be more accountable to the schools as well as more clear with itself about its objectives...
...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...
...bolster its solar-observing efforts, NASA last week launched another solar satellite--this one to measure the properties of the high-energy particles ("solar wind") blowing out from the star. That was good news to many scientists who feared that, for budget reasons, the space agency might pull the plug on its existing solar observatory. "One way or another, we will keep it operating," vows NASA official George Withbroe. A good thing too, since solar storms are expected to reach another peak in the year 2000 or 2001. Stay tuned--if your power remains...