Word: unspent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...free-market economy would increase inflation. But under the severe price controls of a command economy, the money has no place to go but under the mattress. Jan Vanous, research director of PlanEcon, a Washington-based consulting firm, estimates that by the end of 1989 the store of unspent, readily available money will exceed 460 billion rubles, at least a third of which would be spent immediately if goods were on hand...
...would stretch from Florida to California. The territory that was once called Seward's Folly is rich almost beyond comprehension in oil, coal, timber and fish. Alaska is truly America's last frontier, a place of wonder that is virtually unspoiled and a priceless treasure that is largely unspent...
...Hampshire's Republican Senator Gordon Humphrey loves being known as a nickel squeezer. In his first term he has so far proudly returned $560,000 in unspent office funds to the U.S. Treasury. In a state where talk of taxation is political suicide, Humphrey, 44, boasts, "Six years ago I promised I would be the toughest skinflint in Washington, and I've kept that promise...
Meselson expressed similar doubts about the reliability of interviews held with refugees, and he also said that no spent or unspent munition containing toxins has ever been found since reports of yellow rain started seven years...
Undaunted, the Administration bypassed Congress and encouraged some states to cut their WIC programs. This resulted in 200,000 people being removed from the program in fiscal 1981--while $60 million in WIC money remained unspent. Congress ordered the Reagan Administration to reinstate the removed women, infants and children, and to serve as many people as possible. But by August of 1982, five states had run out of funds, while 25 states had unused money. By law, the Department of Agriculture must shift funds to needed areas, but it refused to do so. After a federal judge ruled that...