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...committee used as its guiding principle that the shoe must pinch every service, but not cripple the delivery of those essential to the community," a spokesman for the commission, which was chaired by EASTCO president Alan Steinert Jr. said yesterday...
Training responsibilities have to be shared among the team members, and the best in each event aids the others as best he can. In a pinch, Morrison has taken over all of the coaching duties as well as keeping up his organizational role...
Reagan did pledge that the Pentagon would feel the budget-cutting pinch too. He proposed to close some military bases and pare down a pay raise for civilian employees of the Department of Defense. Even so, military spending next fiscal year would rise $4.3 billion over the $181.5 billion Jimmy Carter proposed, and that is a modest start. In fiscal 1983 the increase would be $20 billion; by fiscal 1986, $63.1 billion. Some of the projects the money would go for are obvious enough: a new manned bomber, an additional nuclear aircraft carrier, faster production of jet fighters. But Pentagon...
Today's fiscal pinch seems tightest in the Midwest, where the tax-cut movement has been fierce. After office in 1978, Minnesota Governor Al Quie approved a $792 million tax relief program. In his budget message last month, however, Quie projected that expenditures for 1981 to 1983 will exceed revenues by $1.37 billion...
Many evangelical groups are free from scrutiny. In the monthly Eternity, Columnist Joseph Bayly complains that while worthy causes pinch pennies, cash flows freely to high-living evangelists subject only to boards led by relatives and retainers. To allay doubts, nondenominational ministries in 1979 created the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (E.C.F.A.) to fix fund-raising standards. Many evangelists, including Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell, have won its seal of approval; others, including Jim Bakker, Rex Humbard, Oral Roberts and Pat Robertson, have not. Bayly advises contributors to demand a financial statement even if a group has the E.C.F.A. seal...