Word: earmarked
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...referendum would earmark seven percent of the annual state budget for primary, secondary, and higher education. One of Tsongas' goals is to win back for public primary and secondary education some of the funds eliminated by another populist revenue control referendum, Proposition 2 1/2, which limited taxes on local property taxes...
First of all, under current law, all taxes belong to the city treasury. An outside group or bill cannot earmark money for specific funding goals...
Administrators say it is difficult to dip into the endowment to pay brick-and-mortar costs, because donors often earmark their gifts to Harvard for other projects. The Harvard Campaign, a recent fund drive, set a goal of $12 million for the houses and dorms, but raised only...
...vote, senators killed an amendment by Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., to jettison most of the money-losing parts of the bill, saving $1.8 billion over three years, and earmark' the money to help pay for a sweeping drug bill that is still being written...
...swelling drug tide quickly swamped Haiti's law-enforcement capabilities. Only 19 policemen have been assigned to antidrug squads throughout the country. Their only equipment is two jeeps and five radios that the U.S. provided in 1985. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration last year persuaded Washington to earmark $200,000 for communications equipment to bolster Haitian drug enforcement. But the money has not yet been released...