Word: omb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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William Safire, columnist, describing budget-slashing OMB Director David Stockman: "A blow-dried Grim Reaper...
...Carolina), interest deductions for vacation homes, and the oil depletion allowance. Reuss even asked about a $37 million program for roads in national parks and wilderness areas. Replied Stockman in a revealing aside about the scale of Government spending: "That may be an item we missed. The computers at OMB are programmed to round off at $50 million...
...social group--including fields such as minority mental health, rape prevention and family mental health and policy research--will be reviewed categorically," the source said. But the "non-social" divisions--such as neuroscience and clinical research--are scheduled to be forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) "per usual procedure," the source added...
Citing expected cuts in funding for economics research, Brooks said. "This is personal animosity on the part of [David A.] Stockman [director of the OMB and architect of Reagan's spending plan], who fancies himself an economist...
...avowed purpose of issuing the don't-hit list was to redeem Reagan's pledge that his spending cuts would not hurt the "truly needy." But many veterans and Social Security pensioners scarcely meet the stern definition of truly needy people offered by OMB Associate Director Donald Moran: "People who in the absence of Government benefits could not survive...