Word: limits
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Other parts of the city budget may suffer less. In an effort to stay within Gov. Edward J. King's 4 per cent limit on tax increases, City Manager James L. Sullivan ordered every department head to request no more than 2 per cent over last year's budget. "No budget request came in much above that, and some came in a little below," Sullivan said. But figure out the math. If inflation stays above 15 per cent, and budgets only increase 2 per cent, then total spending in real dollars will decrease dramatically. For a year, maybe two, inflation...
Glenn J. Moramarco '81, Currier House representative to CHUL. said yesterday Susan A. Neer, a housing officer, told him last Friday that an error in the computer programming process which randomly assigns freshmen to Houses caused the Currier Houses male/female ratio to exceed the established limit...
...specify. Corners have often been attempted but seldom work, partly because the soaring price creates new supplies. The most famous corner was the one that Jay Gould and Jim Fisk achieved in the New York gold market in 1869 by bribing President Grant's Assistant Treasurer, Daniel Butterfield, to limit the supply of gold. Grant himself intervened to break the corner...
...emphasized the physical aspects of city planning through most of the 1960s. When broader social and economic problems began to limit architectural options at the turn of the decade, its focus shifted to training and research in public policy. While the K-School initiated a separate Public Policy program, the GSD recruited an increasing number of CRP students for their interest in administration, not design. By the mid '70s bureaucratic theory had eclipsed architecture within CRP. Gerald M. McCue, dean-designate of the GSD, remembers that "our CRP program had become 80 per cent public policy analysis...
...increase will put the city well above Gov. Edward King's 4-per-cent spending increase cap, but Duehay said inflation would force the city to override that limit...