Word: earmarks
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...start it going, the U.S. would earmark between $2 and $3 billion a year (about one-fifteenth of its arms budget) for the next five years, to provide an investment fund for underdeveloped nations. Britain and other industrial nations would be asked to supply additional billions; private investors, most of them American, would be encouraged to add to the kitty. Loans from this giant fund would be made available to the have-not nations without military or political strings, but each borrower would be expected to concentrate on those industries for which climate and resources best fitted it: there would...
Government told steelmen to earmark 488,000 tons of steel for shells in the third quarter-⅓ more than in the second...
With the glimmer of a Korean truce in the ofling, the Administration could walk into public acclaim and out of world leadership by turning its back on Asia. But in the new Dulles plan to send arms to Indo-China and earmark some of our French funds for use in that war, the free world can find assurance that the United States is not going to pack its bag and get out of Asia as soon as the truce is settled...
Radcliffe's Combined Charities Committee began collecting money yesterday for the 'Cliffe fund drive, which will run for ten days. Students can give money to seven suggested charities, or earmark their contributions for a charity of their choice...
...account of the arguments raised in favor of state ownership may I refer you to the Congressional Record for Wednesday, April 2nd. With reference to the disposition of the funds raised by federal ownership of the tidelands, in the first place it is not considered good budgetary practice to earmark funds, in the second it would be poor policy to earmark funds for a politically controversial purpose as federal aid to education (if aid outside present areas is intended), and in the third place the states charge a rate of 37 1-2% on the extractive industry, whereas the federal...