Word: earmark
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...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...
...scheduled expiration date later this year. CETA gathered a host of federal programs under a single administrative umbrella. It provides block grants to state and local governments for public works projects and for placing unemployed Americans of all ages in jobs ranging from puppeteer to policeman. Carter would earmark $900 million in CETA funds to create 138,000 new jobs for disadvantaged youths under 21, including $450 million for "innovative and experimental programs...
...Reagan has not stressed that plan lately, he has never disavowed it; his aides insist that it has been misunderstood. The impression got around that Reagan would simply dump those programs on states and cities, which would have to raise taxes sharply to pay for them. Actually, Reagan would earmark a portion of the federal income tax collected in each state and locality to be kept there to finance the activities dropped by Washington...