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...national security. Likewise, Bill Clinton, who asked in his first inaugural for us to choose sacrifice not “for its own sake, but for our own sake,” saw the necessity of restraint in federal spending, allowing our nation to prosper while cutting the budget deficit...
...most expensive of the Ivy League schools. For this reason, a tuition increase in any form is highly scrutinized. Given the financial struggle that FAS currently finds itself in, it retains as much of the annual tuition increase that it can to help address the FAS budget deficit. In this way, FAS limits the amount of any increase that is passed on directly the College. The net effect is a lack of funding for numerous student life initiatives, including the HUDS meal plan. In the past years, fuel prices and labor wages have risen dramatically but FAS has been unwilling...
...humanitarian work in medicine. A founding director of Partners in Health (PIH), a medical charity with offices around the world, Farmer was presented the honor at the Belo Mansion in Dallas, Texas. He will use the money to help make up for disparities in the organization’s budget, PIH spokesman Andrew Marx said. Farmer’s method of treating patients with multi-variable tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, developed during his time at PIH, revolutionized the approach to the diseases in the public health profession, putting patient care before cost, according to Arthur Kleinman, Rabb professor of anthropology...
...Budget, the incumbent Coalition will spend a lot more of the Made-in-China dollars it has lately been returning to taxpayers. Again, the simple rules of politics apply. While there's a great deal of public interest in water policy, WorkChoices, global warming, nuclear energy, education, health and national security to keep the dinner conversations pumping, recent elections have always come down to the economy. Howard and Rudd want voters to remember their names when they think about words like "prosperity" and "future." Unemployment is at 4.5%; inflation seems to be in check, but another rise in interest rates...
...with Qarase's people," he says. "They want business as usual-even if it's going downhill." Last month Fiji's Reserve Bank predicted the economy would shrink 2-4% this year; before the coup, it had forecast growth of 2%. Speaking the day before his government's first Budget, Bainimarama blames Qarase's team. "If the economy falls," he says, "then 2% of the fall can be attributed to the events of Dec. 5. Ninety-eight per cent is the fault of the previous government. We were already going downhill, but we need to pick it up very quickly...