budget
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A large chunk of the defense budget goes toward paying the salaries of service members.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
But the boom is reverberating beyond the tech-centric Bay Area: the money has also helped ease the state government’s chronic budget deficit by helping push income-tax revenues well above forecasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
In proportion, its total budget gap during the same time is more than £29m.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
That’s due to concerns about America’s growing debt and federal budget deficit, uncertainty around how new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh plans to tame inflation and as tech companies fuel a corporate-bond issuance boom.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
In that way players can budget their time in whatever way they wish.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Wars, the bursting of the dot-com bubble and tax cuts sent budgets off course in the early 2000s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
"This is simply the shuffling around of existing departmental budgets," they added.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
That makes family budgets even tighter going into the new school year.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
The sweeping majority of American nonprofits operate with annual budgets under $1 million; the value they got from Microsoft’s free business software equated to about 30 percent of their IT spend, he told me.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
As law enforcement budgets exploded, so did prison and jail populations.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Each of these programs went years past their original delivery deadlines and cost far more than originally budgeted.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
That could lead to a nasty surprise for which they might not have budgeted.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
This year, the state budgeted $190 million for premium subsidies for people with incomes of up to 165% of the federal poverty level.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
Large losses in the property and casualty segment were below Hannover Re’s budgeted expectation at 206.9 million euros, it said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
At McMillan’s suggestion, Lawrence shrank his proposal to a 6-billion-volt machine budgeted at just under $10 million.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
If you have worked in the world of defense budgeting, spending or contracting, we’d like to hear from you.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
The report also identified gaps in financial and budgeting knowledge among district leaders and school board members.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Mecham started in 2004 by sharing a budgeting spreadsheet as a broke grad student.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Parents have said a school uniform pop-up has helped ease the stress of budgeting for the new term.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
When I say run a company, I mean keeping track of inventory, staying in touch with customers, recruiting, project management, product development, scheduling, budgeting, and human resources.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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