Word: overbudgeted
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...Easy Rider belt is tightening around the necks of prima donna producers and directors with a record of bringing pictures in late and overbudget. Blake Edwards, whose The Great Race came in at 100% over, and his wife Julie Andrews, no longer surefire box office since Star!, are reportedly being paid a $1,000,000 settlement by MGM not to shoot their previously committed film, She Loves...
...Treadway's president and chief executive is J. Frank Birdsall Jr., 51, a Cornell hotel school graduate and experienced kitchen man who first worked for Treadway during college vacations. To its charm and cuisine, Treadway has lately added a computer that scans daily innkeeper reports and immediately spots overbudget spending or unnecessary additions to the 2,500-man staff. Rather than diminishing Treadway's image of individuality, the computer is adding to it. Freed from routine paper work, Treadway innkeepers can now spend more time caring for their guests...
...billion, for such antirecession programs as higher housing outlays and pump-priming public work projects. Other spending pressures: a $900 million post-Sputnik boost in defense, $1.4 billion turned over to the International Monetary Fund as of July 1 (but charged against the dying fiscal year), a $2.2 billion overbudget outlay for buying the bumper crops produced by the obsolete farm-subsidy program...