Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even so, the spending cuts apparently do not touch the fastest-growing portion of the budget, the major "entitlement" programs-Social Security, veterans' benefits, unemployment compensation -which are considered politically sacrosanct. Nor will the spending reductions by themselves balance the budget. If Congress and the Administration proceeded on the January plan, the $15.8 billion deficit originally estimated would swell to $25 billion or even $30 billion, according to estimates of the Congressional Budget Office. Main reason: inflation is raising the bills that the Government pays...
...reduced or dropped. School lunches and health care for children will likely be cut back. Energy and food aid for the poor will suffer. Carter is presenting large savings in federal aid to states and cities with typical sleight of hand. He intends to eliminate the states' $1.7 billion portion of general revenue-sharing, about half of which goes to education. Since Illinois, New York and some other states pass their share on to localities, the administration said Monday it would seek several hundred million dollars in compensation for cities and counties that would be hurt the most. But with...
Steel is at the crossroads. With relatively inexpensive imports keeping a lid on prices and a considerable portion of capital outlays diverted into nonproductive environmental controls, the industry cannot raise the money to build the efficient plants it must have to compete with foreign steel. Management, labor and the Government know it, and they are finally in agreement that steps must be taken now to harden and sharpen steel...
...days later, Moser-Pröll took a spill on the steep upper portion of the shorter women's slalom in the first run and was eliminated. Hanni stayed upright and swept to her second gold by a commanding margin of nearly 1.5 sec. With two golds and a silver in the three alpine events, she matched the smashing performance of West Germany's Rosi Mittermaier in the 1976 Winter Games at Innsbruck...
...grading. Before, any student who answered 140 of the multiple-choice questions correctly passed automatically, no matter how bad his essays were; in 1976 the trigger figure for passing became 145. (In Pennsylvania, by contrast, the pass number is 135.) Then, last July, something strange happened in the essay portion: of the 60% who scored below 145 on the multiple-choice section, only 10% did well enough on the essays to pass the exam -far fewer than in earlier years...