Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sent large Air Force cargo planes to return the mounting numbers of American bodies to the East Coast (at a cost of some $3 million), the FBI moved into the case on the basis of a 1971 law making the assassination of a Congressman a federal crime. The FBI was also probing persistent reports by surviving members of the cult that Jones had decreed that if his community was destroyed, a "hit team" of other members would be dispatched to hunt down and kill any defectors who had turned against the cult, as well as any public officials considered guilty...
Though no firm decisions have been taken on the precise programs to be reduced, there are some prime candidates. The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, which places unemployed low-income people in public service jobs, will cost an estimated $11 billion in fiscal 1979. But the program is beset by inefficiency and corruption; CETA officials often hand out jobs on a patronage basis. This month Labor Secretary Marshall set up a new investigative unit to try to root out fraud in the program...
...about 75% of the budget has been considered practically immune to cuts because spending levels were established by Congress and can only be reduced by changing the law. Included are such huge programs as Social Security, which will cost $103 billion in fiscal 1979: Medicare, which will spend $29 billion; and Medicaid, with outlays of $12 billion. But now OMB is preparing a set of proposals for Congress that would tighten requirements for entering these programs. Such changes, OMB estimates, would save as much as $1 billion in fiscal 1980. HEW, which has learned that it must absorb one-third...
Barnes's decision follows a series of rulings in recent years that have giver lawyers, engineers, druggists and optometrists the right to advertise. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 1977 to allow lawyers to advertise has led to the development of numerous low-cost legal clinics...
...library was not named for its endower because it has no endowment of its own. Radcliffe supports Schlesinger its projects, and a 13 person staff at a cost of approximately $300,000 a year...