Word: spendthriftness
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Buckley has countered Moynihan's charges with allegations that "Professor Moynihan" is an irresponsible liberal spendthrift whose programs, if adopted, would raise the average New York family's taxes by $3000. The Buckley image is that of a "classic conservative" who disapproves of federal action in most cases on the grounds that it is wasteful and ineffective, and that increased federal intervention leads to increased government centralization, with a con-commitant decrease in individual rights...
...Flesh may be corruptible, and Author Elkin's spendthrift talent some times threatens to knock the bottom out of the word market entirely. But The Franchiser has what few novels have any more: the ability to astonish and delight and a totally conscious hero who proves that the unaudited life is not worth living...
...almost identical alternate work prints were substituted. Then last December Producer Alberto Grimaldi canceled Casanova in mid-filming, blaming Fellini's extravagance: $7 million had already been spent, roughly two-thirds of the picture shot. Fellini sued and a Roman judge found that the director had not been spendthrift. Production resumed, and last week TIME Correspondent Leo Janos visited the set outside Rome. His report...
...inflation during Reagan's eight-year administration, state spending doubled, to $9.3 billion, and state taxes per capita jumped to $768 from $426; both increases were at about the same rate as those during Democrat Pat Brown's eight-year administration, which Reagan had attacked as spendthrift. Still, Reagan held state employment to about 116,000, an increase of less than 10%, compared with the 75% increase of Brown's years. Moreover, Reagan substantially raised state aid to schools and other local services. Unquestionably, he left California's state government on a sounder fiscal footing than...
...City's financial crisis has made it into the national news. For months the city's agonies had been relegated to the business sections of papers elsewhere, and John Chancellor and Walter Cronkite had barely mentioned them. But an approaching presidential election and an administration determined to teach a spendthrift Congress a lesson have rescued New York from oblivion. Now people outside the state care if New York sinks: Ford is promoting its collapse...