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...points out that he reduced property taxes five times during his eight years as mayor of Indianapolis and left office this year with a surplus of $4.5 million. Lately, Lugar, who has a stiff campaign manner, has loosened up his style, shedding his conservative business suits for bright blazers and white loafers. He has run into some flak from Common Cause for his acceptance of $10,000 in contributions from the A.M.A., twice the amount allowed one contributor by law. He claims it was legal. However, with a $500,000 budget, thousands of precinct workers, and an aura...
Ford was also misleading in deriding Carter's claim that, if the economy and employment grow as rapidly as he anticipates, by fiscal 1981 there could be a $60 billion surplus in federal revenues. Ford's own economic advisers have projected an even greater possible fiscal gain: $75.5 billion. Nor was Ford accurate in claiming that current Georgia Governor George Busbee had found the state's Medicaid program "a shambles" on following Carter into office. The term does not appear in the Senate Finance subcommittee testimony Ford had cited. What Busbee had done, in fact, was to assail the Federal...
...news this week that the endowment has risen by more than 11 per cent for the second consecutive year, and that the University will report a surplus for the first time since fiscal year 72-73 prove the success of the shift to the wholly owned financial management subsidiary...
Harvard management has pushed for tighter financial management, investment of 40 percent of the endowment in the fixed income securities bond market, and a long-term approach to the University's fiscal problems. All these moves add up to Harvard's surplus...
...rode into Greece from Yugoslavia on a lazy train in which the second class was crammed with fidgety bodies while the corridors were impassably strewn with parcels, sleeping bags and surplus passengers staring fixedly out the windows for hours or hunched down against the walls. Nonetheless, someone was forever trying to pace from one car to another, so there was a perpetual rippling of volumes in the dimness (most of the trip took place at night) as bodies and belongings obligingly traded then resumed their places...