Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Darman's observation -- oddly reminiscent of Jimmy Carter's much maligned 1979 "malaise" speech on the nation's shrinking horizons -- was acute. But even as he was speaking, Darman and others in Government were obscuring the size of the federal deficit through slick bookkeeping and legislative tricks and promising bold new programs that they knew the federal budget could not sustain...
...biggest challenge for the Hispanic media is winning over advertisers who question the value and size of their audience. "Corporate America thinks of some poor guy living in a barrio who just came over the border," complains Estrada, who claims that half his readers make $40,000 or more annually. To combat skepticism about their ratings, rivals Univision and Telemundo last summer jointly hired Nielsen Media Research, the television ratings service, to verify their claims. Advertising dollars aimed at Hispanics peaked at $550 million last year, according to Hispanic Business, a fraction of the national total of $125 billion...
...some of the University's nine faculties couldn't care less. The reason? "Every tub on its own bottom"--the Harvard tradition which decrees that all schools must maintain their own financial autonomy. One result: the Graduate School of Education had a total budget less than half the size of what the Faculty of Arts and Sciences made in fundraising alone last year...
...already quite clear that the legitimate educational objectives and commitments of the faculty are beyond the capacity of a faculty at this size to meet effectively," says Spence. "We're cutting corners...
Increasing the size of the faculty could hold the key to several other initiatives underway in University Hall, administrators...