Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inside his office. By the time his four-year term had ended, he had reduced the agencies to a more manageable 22. That did not mean that all the agencies disappeared; many of them were simply grouped in a single department with no loss of staff. Carter also introduced "zero-based budgeting." Every state department had to justify its entire budget request, and not just the increase over the year before. The new system is still being tested, and it has flaws. But political scientists?and even some of his enemies?concede that Carter made substantial improvements, cut the flow...
...Republican nomination should Ford falter. In the next few months Rocky will try to flash into the public eye, making many "noncampaign" speeches on subjects ranging from federalism to the future of science, as well as traveling abroad as a Bicentennial good-will ambassador. His prospects seem close to zero, but he has one asset: the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on campaign spending removed all limits on the amount of personal cash a candidate may spend as long as he accepts no federal matching funds...
...that, although he makes only $1 per hour, K.O.K. has just spent $6 on ice cream for his friends. "Son," says Scoops in a fatherly fashion, "you're supposed to make $4 today. Now you've gotta work two more hours just to get back to zero." Blurts out the incredulous K.O.K.: "Oh, man, hey, I didn't even know there was a below zero. Man, I'm in worse shape than if I didn't have nothin...
...Zero Mostel, who grew up in a small, overcrowded tenement apartment, recalls that "the alliance gave me a new life-I had never seen such big rooms before...
While a crowded field of candidates began to zero in on the New Hampshire primary, the man who many think has the best chance to win the Democratic presidential nomination, Veteran Campaigner Hubert Humphrey, watched from the sidelines. TIME'S national political correspondent Robert Ajemian visited Humphrey at his home in Waverly, Minn., and sent this report...