Word: caspar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...table, facing into the glare of sunlight, budget examiners responsible for knowing the spending plans of every federal agency have defended their estimates. Seated across from them-and grilling them-have been their bosses, the top officials of the Office of Management and Budget, headed by Caspar Weinberger, who is known in Washington these days as "Cap the Knife." The OMB's annual item-by-item budget review has been a genuine suspense episode because President Nixon has demanded that the columns for the current fiscal year add up to no more than $250 billion. That can be achieved...
...fiscal 1974, which starts next July 1, Budget Director Caspar ("Cap The Knife") Weinberger is roughing out a plan to hold spending to $262.5 billion, though he is likely to wind up at $265 billion. That would further pare the deficit to around $15 billion. More than that, it would bring expenditures into approximate balance with the revenues that the tax system would generate if the economy were operating at full employment. Although federal spending would climb about $15 billion from this fiscal year, the increase would be entirely accounted for by rises, already dictated by law, in Social Security...
...Budget Director Caspar...
...cave walls, Sales discovered a recurring theme: a triangle marked by a deep cut running from one apex to the center. To Sales, the triangle is obviously a symbol for the female. The same symbol, he recalls, had been observed on the jewelry of the Amazons by Father Caspar de Carvajal, a chronicler of Orellana's expedition. At least one of the cave triangles has a smaller triangle carved inside it; Sales speculates that it might represent pregnancy. Another triangle, adorned with two stripes, might have symbolized a tribal leader. Still others are positioned side by side, suggesting lesbianism...
Catoctin Mountain retreat. Burns and McCracken were there; so were Shultz and his deputy, Caspar Weinburger, and the two Teutons who guard Nixon's gates, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. Peter Peterson, a presidential aide for international economic affairs, joined the sessions. Volcker and Speechwriter Bill Safire sneaked across Washington to the Anacostia Naval Air Station, where they boarded a helicopter for Camp David. John Connally, who had no way of knowing that the pressure on the dollar would propel him into prominence so soon, had just gone to his Texas ranch for a vacation. He jetted hastily back...