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...Total spending for HEW rises a bit more than 10%, to $199.4 billion next year, and the department's share of the budget grows fractionally to 37.5%. Similarly, at Housing and Urban Development, spending is up slightly more than 18%, to $ 10.6 billion. Boasted one HUD staffer: "We didn't lose one program that we didn't want to lose...
...ever said that cutting the budget would be easy, but for one top staffer at the Office of Management and Budget it has become a real nightmare. When W. Bowman Cutter, the aptly named Associate Director of OMB, drifts off to sleep these nights, his dreams run regularly to visions of hands that keep grabbing at him from all directions. The symbolism is plain: the hands belong to various interest groups that are desperately appealing to him to be exempted from budget cutbacks. Less than a month remains before Jimmy Carter presents to Congress his spending program for fiscal...
...with inflation." But if Carter cuts too sharply he will alienate many of the groups?liberals, minorities, labor?who supported him in '76. Senator Ted Kennedy, a potential Carter rival in 1980, has already threatened to fight any reductions in health appropriations. Anticipating an intraparty battle ahead, a Kennedy staffer warns: "There's going to be a lot of blood on the floor...
Dining hall staffer Helen C. Davidson yesterday recalled the last food fight at Kirkland House two years ago. "Turkey legs were the main course and the dining hall manager stopped it before it got going," she said...
...Howe's arrest for disorderly conduct when she bit a police officer especially angered the Howes. After her brother was elected a city tax assessor, he increased the Journal's assessment by more than $10,000. "He singled us out, there's no question about it," says one newspaper staffer. "He didn't do the same to other businesses...