Word: placing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rite of fall is that if an agency does not spend its full appropriation by Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year, the money remaining is returned to the Treasury. That could give Congress the idea that the agency's appropriation was too large in the first place and lead to a reduction the following year. Says former Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal: "More money is wasted in the Federal Government in the last two months of the budget year than in the previous ten months...
Second, steps are needed to prevent wasting and polluting. The obvious place to improve water use is on the farm. Agriculture consumes 80% of U.S. water, notably because farmers pump out more than they really need when irrigating...
...helped mightily to keep the surprising Houston Astros neck and neck with the powerful Cincinnati Reds in the National League West. Fittingly, Joe Niekro's closest competitor for victories in the league is Big Brother Phil, 40, who has won 17 and lost 18 for the last-place Atlanta Braves. (He has accounted for 30% of all the games the Braves have managed to win this year...
...week, she stepped out of her league. For $50,000, Meyers signed with the Indiana Pacers to become the first woman ever given a contract in men's bigtime professional sports.* This week she joins the Pacers' rookie camp to start the daunting struggle of winning a place in the high-pressure and punishing world of the pros. Among her competition for the eleven-person regular season roster is Indi ana's No. 1 draft choice, Dudley Bradley of North Carolina. A measure of the task facing Meyers...
After Tampa's busing began, a drop in white enrollment was expected but failed to take place; a handful of white-flight academies soon closed for lack of business. Today, reports School Superintendent Raymond Shelton, the only impact of busing on enrollment is a dip of 4% for grades 6 and 7, the grades in which white children do most of the busing. Apparently their objection is not to black classmates...