It was an approach that said we need to go through the budget line-by-line looking for waste, without shortchanging education and basic scientific research and road construction, because those things are essential to our future.
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The press, which prides itself on skepticism, swallowed the balanced budget line whole.
He's instructed his nominated budget chief, Peter Orszag, to go through the budget "line by line" to root out wasteful spending.
Asha, the budget smartphone line from Nokia, is outselling its premium handset offering, the Windows-run Lumia, by over two to one.
We will continue to go through the budget, line by line, page by page, to eliminate programs that we can't afford and don't work.
" In his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, he pledged to "go through the federal budget line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work.
At my very first Cabinet meeting, I directed every secretary to join us in scouring the budget, line by line, to find ways to make government more efficient and less wasteful.
The U.S. will have some big challenges up ahead, and they are mostly conservative challenges: getting the budget back in line, tax reform, getting the economy going, monetary reform, entitlement and welfare reform, and shrinking government overall from the bloated state it has been in since World War II.
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Yet the previous Labour government was reluctant to increase the defence budget in line with its grandiose ambitions and now the coalition government is set to cut it.
Rep. Jim Cooper, a Tennessee Democrat, said he appreciated Obama's promise to include disaster spending and the war in the new budget, instead of moving the items "off budget" to make the bottom line look better.
All this raises the question of whether Germany and the EU can hold the line on budget discipline.
What the President believes is important is that the Budget Control Act that was signed into law by him last year provides the top-line spending caps for the coming budget.
On fiscal discipline, I continue to work with my staff to go through the federal budget, line by line, as suggested by President Obama.
During the day long proceedings and at the conclusion of the Forum, the participants emphasized the need of raising education budget at least up to 4% of the GDP, creating a special budget line for Early Childhood Education (ECE), and creation of an Inter-provincial Forum on Education by the Federal Ministry of Inter-provincial Coordination.
Nor do we expect pro-growth structural reforms such as repeal of the 1974 budget and impoundment act, the line item veto, pay-go rules to require spending cuts to offset proposed spending increases, scoring reform, or a super-majority vote to pass new entitlements.
These technologies demanded larger and larger percentages of the corporate budget, so a direct line to the president or CEO was paramount in justifying these spends.
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In the ten months to January, they were 7.8% higher than in the same period in 2003-04 bang in line with the budget forecast for the whole financial year.
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In an analysis just released entitled The Only Sensible Outcome for the Budget Summit: Slip the Gramm-Rudman Targets, the Center argues against two of the most likely results of such a summit agreements to increase taxes significantly and to make massive reductions in the "top line" for the defense budget.
The improvement in the deficit would have been even bigger if current spending had grown in line with the budget forecast of 5.1%.
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If inflation is lower, then the growth in these budget line items is slower.
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The NASA reviews established the requirements for developing the rocket in line with the agency's budget and schedule.
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On the other hand, if the K7 keeps AMD's promises, it may heighten competition and lead to price cuts not only in the budget sector but also at the top of the line.
You've also said that you want to take a scalpel to the budget and go through it line by line.
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EU's current arcane budget rules, although members make payments to the budget which are broadly in line with their relative wealth, their receipts depend to a large extent on how productive their farmers are.
On the economic front, Obama pledged Tuesday to go through the federal budget "page by page, line by line" to eliminate excessive spending and get the economy back on track.
European Union leaders have begun talks on the bloc's seven-year budget, with many urging cuts in line with the savings they are making nationally.
My administration has also begun to go line by line through the federal budget in order to eliminate wasteful and ineffective programs.
Personnel related costs are the largest line item in my budget.
London has opposed a proposed 5% increase in the EU's next budget, arguing it should be kept in line with the rate of inflation at around 3%.
On spending, Obama promised as president he would "go through the federal budget page by page, line by line, and cut programs that don't work, " echoing a vow his rival has made repeatedly.
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