Sentences with phrase «of balanced budgets earlier»

He stressed the importance of balanced budgets earlier this month when announcing former Saskatchewan finance minister Andrew Thomson would be running as an NDP candidate in Toronto.

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Eight months earlier, when a Conservative member of the House of Commons finance committee asked him to comment on the merits of a balanced budget, Poloz demurred.

Glen Hodgson, senior vice-president and chief economist, Conference Board of Canada It's good that the government is still shooting to balance the budget by 2015 and gives itself room to do it at least a year earlier.

It's a fairly modest spending plan of lowered public school fees, hospital projects and a slow, optimistic climb to balanced budget early next decade.

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With the Alberta twist on LOL — lower for longer oil prices — the government has cancelled its earlier promise of a balanced budget by 2020.

Earlier today, Jay Jacobs, the head of the New York Democratic Party, sent out a statement calling on the GOP challengers to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to state where they stand on Paul Ryan's plan to balance the federal budget.

In fact, the plan is very much in line with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's lament earlier this year that the state's budget process uses a series of gimmicks to balance spending each year — a tradition that the governor has vowed to change.

In 2003, over the Governor's vetoes, the Legislature closed the state's budget gap in a much more balanced manner than New York State had pursued in the early 1990s, and the state is now enjoying the benefits of those choices.

Earlier today, a state oversight board seized control of Nassau County's finances, saying the fiscally troubled county has failed to balance its $ 2.6 billion budget in spite of its wealth and considerable property tax base wealthy in spite of months of warnings to do so.

Between today and early December we will study thousands of budgetary line items to finalize a balanced and practical County budget,» said Legislator Rath.

In December, a month earlier than required, Paterson proposed a gap - closing budget balanced with a mix of spending cuts and revenue hikes.

Earlier this year, the university distributed a memo to students warning that without an increase in grants from the provincial government, it will be forced to balance the budget with tuition increases of 6 % to 8 % and cut faculty budgets by 2 % to 3 % this year.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

When the California School Boards Association surveyed its members earlier this year, the group found that rising pension costs have already led about half of them to cut programs to help balance their budgets.

1971 Termination of gold / dollar convertability 1973 - 74 Oil crisis 1974 Budget and Impoundment Control Act 1979 Volcker appointed chairman of Federal Reserve 1980 - 82 Early 80s Recession 1981 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 1985 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 1987 Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act 1989 - 92 End of the Cold War 1990 Budget Enforcement Act 1990 - 92 Early 90s Recession 1992 Presidential Election 1993 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 1994 Midterm Elections 1995 - 96 Government Shutdown 1997 Balanced Budget and Taxpayer Relief Act 2001 Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act 2003 Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act 2001 - present War on Terror 2007 - 09 Financial Crisis 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

As for how this could be — and in light of the findings of the references listed above — Rankl et al. reasoned that «considering increasing precipitation in winter and decreasing summer mean and minimum temperatures across the upper Indus Basin since the 1960s,» plus the «short response times of small glaciers,» it is only logical to conclude that these facts «suggest a shift from negative to balanced or positive mass budgets in the 1980s or 1990s or even earlier, induced by changing climatic conditions since the 1960s.»