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.
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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All this raises the question of whether Germany and the EU can hold the line on budget discipline.
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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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.
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%.
The Republican plan, put forward by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, basically reiterates the party line that the debt is a spending problem alone and that tax increases must not be part of the solution.
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Sure, no tax hikes sounds great -- until the great budget battle engages on your personal turf, and you draw the line.
And he warned Congress to hold the line on spending so the budget can be balanced in 2005.
And for some Sarbanes-Oxley remains an expensive line item in the annual budget, even after many years of experience and refinement.
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Over 1, 000 government programs, including the defense budget and Medicare, are in line for deep, automatic cuts that begin to bite in January.
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The poverty line is defined, in the US, as three times the food budget of 1962.
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My recommendation is to ignore the official current-law scoring estimates of the federal budget, unless you have sufficient analytical resources to sort through the legislative details, line by line, and figure out what is really going on.
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Not for the first time, we're reminded that these extraordinary times have made the dividing line between Bank's "independent monetary policy" and the government's budget plans rather murky.
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