Word: earmark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard administrators are anxiously watching developments on Capitol Hill because either plan will provide more financial assistance for Harvard students. One proposed bill would ease college costs through a $500 tax credit, while the other would increase funding for existing federal financial aid programs and earmark some of that money specifically for middle-income families...
...packages that would give families in the $15,000 to $25,000 income range the first long-awaited break in financing tuition costs. One proposed bill would ease the financial burden through a $250 tax credit, while the other would increase funding for existing financial aid programs and earmark some of that money specifically for middle income families...
...part-time jobs, would be expanded from $435 million to $600 million to cover 280,000 newly eligible students. In all, the Carter plan would aid 5 million students in 1979, 2 million more than present, and cost $500 million over the $1 billion that Carter originally hoped to earmark for such aid in fiscal 1979. "Increasingly, middle-income families, not just lower-income families, are being stretched to their financial limits by the growing costs of a university or college education," said Carter. In 1978, he pointed out, tuition, room and board will average $4,800 a year...
...Long supports energy taxes in broad outline, but as the senior Senator from a state rich in gas and oil, he has other ideas about who should get the money. He wants to return it to gas and oil producers as a spur to finding new fields and to earmark some of it for developing new energy sources...
...handle it down the street." After Carter's announcement, O'Neill checked with his colleagues ("moseyed around the House floor") and concluded that Democratic leaders would have no difficulty persuading both the House and Senate to drop the funds or, as the White House would prefer, earmark them for cruise missiles and B-52 modifications...