Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sweaters. Is this a Colorado ski resort scene? No, just an unusual 36° day at Walt Disney World in Florida. Across a broad sweep of the country last week, winter howled in with bone-numbing force. In the nation's capital, temperatures dropped 20°, to near zero, during a one-hour period...
...Mclntyre who, back in Georgia, first tested for Carter the idea of "zero-based budgeting"-that is, not simply comparing a department's spending requests with what it spent the previous year, but starting at zero and figuring out how much it really needs. Currently, as time grows short to ready the 1979 budget for presentation to Congress on Jan. 23, Mclntyre has been zealously applying the concept to the Federal Government. The Department of Defense asked for $130.5 billion in new spending authority for fiscal 1979, but will probably get $126 billion-and that...
...zero-based budget slashing, the final document will make it more difficult than ever for the President to fulfill his promise of balancing the budget by 1981-a pledge that the President has wisely been downplaying lately. Carter and Mclntyre are likely to hold proposed government spending to just slightly below the $500 billion mark that Administration officials consider psychologically discouraging. But the projected budget deficit will probably be no smaller than the $59 billion predicted this fiscal year, and half again as large as the $40 billion that Carter had set as a goal. The difference is accounted...
...courage to think and perform the unthinkable is one of the most complicated and powerful of human gifts. It often has the splendor of inspiration and sheer surprise. The development of zero as a tangible number is a breathtaking conception; the idea, like some arithmetical antimatter, was among the forces that eventually propelled man into space. Darwin's thought enforced an intellectual evolution of its own. So did Freud's and Einstein...
...formerly Connecticut's environmental commissioner, insists that every new rule proposed to him must include an economic impact statement and it is often submitted to state environmental offices for their comments. Costle always asks subordinates: "Have you looked at alternative ways, including doing nothing?" Though Carter's well-touted zero-based budgeting has gone nowhere in most agencies, it has worked well at EPA. Holed up in a windowless room for three weeks, officials constructed a new budget from the bottom up; for example, they shifted half the funds for noise abatement to a program for screening drinking water...