Word: budgeting
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...political strategists about the presidential race, and you'll hear that Al Gore has an edge over George W. Bush on the big domestic issues. A majority of voters agree with Gore that tax cuts should be modest and the budget surplus should go to save Social Security and Medicare, that health coverage should be expanded and women should retain their right to abortion. But on at least one traditional piece of Democratic turf, Bush is sure he can beat Gore. Public education "is a bright and dividing line in this campaign," Bush said repeatedly last week. He called...
...best solutions may be the big-ticket improvements that have proved most elusive. The FAA continues to support a sophisticated ground-radar system that is $30 million over budget and years late. Closing poorly designed airports and restricting the number of flights per hour would probably prove effective--and expensive. It comes down, says Air Safety Week editor David Evans, to "the classic tension between economics and safety." In this trade-off, there's a lot to be said for safety. Just ask Bob and Elizabeth Dole...
...Fontana and Barry Levinson's Homicide was humanities, a character-driven mix of philosophy, religion and Dostoyevsky. Unsurprisingly, then, it was the first department to lose its budget, getting axed at nbc last spring. Now writer-creator Fontana says he and Levinson intend The Beat (UPN, debuts March 21, 9 p.m. E.T.) to delve even deeper into the inner lives of cops. "I'm less interested in the cases than in the effects of them on these guys," he says...
Avery said that she and the committee will fuse the separate sections into a final version of the grant application in the coming weeks. The separate sections include the grant procedure mission statement, potential guidelines for applicants, a possible budget form, a timetable for the grant awards and a draft of a follow-up questionnaire for grant recipients...
After the effort, in which he drew 19 percent of the popular vote, Perot and his supporters organized the Reform Party, focused on such issues as balancing the budget, reforming campaign finance and election laws and protecting American jobs...