Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of his effort would be directed toward shoring up the home front. To trim down the government's $180 million budget deficit, he promised a reduction in spending and a drive to reduce graft in the revenue service so that the Treasury would collect at least some of the estimated $350 million a year in duties that it now loses to smugglers. Burying the bombas, Marcos called on politicians to forget the recent bitter past and cooperate for the tasks ahead. "My intention," he declared, "is to harness all available talents and perhaps to appoint to the Cabinet...
...Force investigators are now ready to test zinc-propelled healing in severe burn cases, because burn patients are already known to develop a major zinc deficit after injury. If the efficacy of the method is fully confirmed, the investigators expect it may be invaluable for combat wounds, which, with today's weapons, tend to be larger than ever. The suggested explanation, said Major Pories, is simple. A tiny amount of zinc is present in enzymes, which are essential to the original growth of mammalian organisms and also, it seems, to the regrowth of destroyed or damaged tissues...
...other Ivy play Penn stormed from a 21-0 first-quarter deficit to humble Columbia...
Byrd's record as Governor is typical of Machine rule. He balanced the budget, turned a state deficit into a surplus, and levied higher taxes on persons with low incomes. He cut spending by reorganizing the state government. He had the legislature pass an anti-lynching law and sponsored a large road-building program (Byrd likes to drive: the automobile is apparently the only twentieth-century innovation he accepts...
Bernstein's remarks on Wednesday indicated that the Group of Ten is rapidly moving toward a consensus in this first and crucial stage. France is expected to insist in general terms that any new system for reserve creation impose greater discipline on deficit countries like the U.S. and Britain...