Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think the most telling item in your article is that browsing is not permitted in Russian bookstores. Our million-a-year browsers would revolt under such a regime...
Managers' salaries, one of the item requested by the HCUA group, were not permitted to appear in the report. At one point in the report, however, the committee hinted that managers' salaries sometimes exceed $2000. The report recommends an upper limit of $1500 on managers' salaries, the amount currently paid the HSA president...
...F.D.R. He developed the famous wartime V-disc for G.I.s to "write" home, set up the multilingual sound systems at the Nuremburg trials and the U.N. Out of all this came a memorable 1950 record, Hark! The Years, narrated by Fredric March, which has been a collector's item selling for as much as $75. Happily, the Michigan State audiovisual center has just reissued...
There are other feats of bookkeeping. The figure that makes all the headlines is the "administrative budget," but the best indicator of how much the Government is spending is the "national income account budget." It includes several expenditures omitted from the administrative budget, among them a hefty $29.4 billion item from such Government trust funds as Social Security. Next year's national income account budget: $121.5 billion, an increase of $2.4 billion from the current year. The figure would have been even higher but for the Administration's decision to sell off some $2.3 billion in such federal...
...politically attractive welfare programs. As Budget Director Kermit Gordon put it, "Over the past three years we have so improved our military strength that we can direct some money to meet human and domestic needs." Total welfare requests were $7.7 billion, up $900 million, and the most heralded item was Johnson's attack on poverty. But the actual new money requested for the attack came to only $250 million...