Word: earmarks
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...burden of increasing musicians' pay. These, in addition to what they now spend for music, will be obliged under the N. A. B. plan to find the extra $1,500,000 for Joe Weber's men by chipping in, in proportion to their financial resources. Each must earmark for music next year the equivalent of 5.49% of gross income during the year which ended last August 31. How the additional musicians are to be allocated among the stations remains to be determined by the N. A. B. To help the poorest broadcasters pay their new quotas, National Broadcasting...
...tight, well-managed squirearchy whose armament expenditures reach only one-twelfth of its balanced budget, Hungary never ceased to earmark money for the debt payment. Although its partial resumption leaves it a defaulter and thus still ineligible for further U. S. loans under the Johnson Act, consensus was that little Hungary, by stepping up alongside little Finland, had made a shrewd and timely move back toward the U. S. money market...
...Heredity. Five generations of the inquiring young woman's family had the abnormal ears-mother, grandfather, great-grandmother, great-great-grand-father. The lop-eared patriarch had 91 descendants, of whom 21 inherited his ears. Everyone affected had both ears affected. In this cup-eared family the earmark skipped no generation. Those who had the defect had a certain number of similar children. But those who escaped, in no case passed on the gene to children, grandchildren. So Dr. Potter concluded "There can be no doubt that the peculiar ears of this family depend upon a single dominant gene...
...seems to me . . . that the final analysis of his whole proposition is the President agrees he will spend practically the same amount of money as the members have decided they want to spend for the same purposes. If this is true . . . why does the President object to Congress earmarking the money and insist on reserving to himself the right to earmark it?" Another shot was added by Mr. Snell's New York colleague John Taber: "This bill was full of pork when it came out of the White House. It was full of pork when it came...
...have annual mud battles between Freshmen and Sophomores; many educational institutions for young ladies make May Day festivities an impressive annual affair. Thus it goes; every college perpetuates the traditions which it finds most suitable and enjoyable, and these same traditions typify and give the college a sort of earmark or trade label by which it may be known...