Word: outlay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is only the beginning. Adding up the projected total cost of all these programs over the next decade, and allowing for the now-common increases in the price of new weapons, Pennsylvania Representative William S. Moorhead estimates that the ultimate outlay would run between $161 billion and $176 billion. Whatever the final cost, taxpayers and Congress have a right to be reassured that the money is to be spent with adequate safeguards against waste and excess profits...
Nixon told Congress that his big gun will be his new enforcer, the Environmental Protection Agency, for which he requested a 1972 outlay of $2.45 billion, nearly double its current budget. The agency's chief target: big industrial polluters. The President seeks power for EPA to impose fines of up to $25,000 a day on industries that pollute waterways in violation of federal-state water-quality standards. In addition, violators would be subject to court-imposed fines of up to $25,000 a day. Repeated violations would draw fines...
...welfare system is a living nightmare that has reached the point of the involuntary scream and chill awakening. The nation spent about $14.2 billion on welfare last year, more than twice the outlay of only five years ago. Yet the 13.5 million Americans?6.3% of the population?who received that aid are only half the estimated number of the needy and eligible. Increased by the recession and the growing activism of welfare rights groups, the rolls continue to grow in every part of the country. After 35 years of legislation and programs, the world's wealthiest nation seems caught...
...costliest senatorial election in the nation's history (estimated outlay: $65 million), one of the most bitterly fought and from all appearances, likely to be the closest since 1954, when Democrats won control by a single vote...
...Palo Alto, Calif. The company, which has already been a consultant to the system for a year, will put the school staff on its payroll, take full charge of curriculum planning and administration. In turn, the city will pay the firm $800 a year per student, the current school outlay in Gary. As a key condition of its contract, BRL must refund the entire fee for any student who is still below the national achievement norm after three years in the program. The Gary teachers' union is keeping a close watch on the plan...