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Today, in its first meeting of the semester, the full faculty is expected to discuss the budget situation and may debate such sweeping measures as the reduction of annual salary increases and a spending cap on funding for the library, the athletic department and other College programs...
...Boston Globe last week: "When you're not with a team, you miss stuff. And you miss the competition. The crowd. Now I have a chance to have that one more time. All of it is going to be great. I'll bottle it. I'll put a cap on it. And I'll never...
That's strange, Magic. I don't think too many athletes would have a problem "putting a cap on" five NBA championships and three league Most Valuable Player Awards--and just walking away. You had your glory days. Be happy for the career you did have...
Bush's long-term economic proposals to encourage savings and investment would have been credible if he had followed through on his boast to bring federal spending, particularly exploding entitlement programs, under control. Bush's budget did include a laconic proposal to cap the relentless growth in such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, but Bush himself glossed over the proposal in his speech, evidently afraid to use the politically charged word entitlement on national television. The next day, Budget Director Richard Darman backed further away from the cap, acknowledging that the White House would gladly abandon the controversial idea...
Although the 10-page letter does not recommend any cuts, Knowles says he plans to limit the average annual growth in the funding for the library, the athletic department and the College by six percent. This spending cap may mean that some programs may have to be curtailed as fixed costs rise with inflation...