But I worked on, and had just sealed up my last budget of proofs, and addressed it to the printers, when the postman appeared.
Dictionary of heresies except a Budget of Paradoxes.
There was a small group of women, an infinitely small budget with which to wage a campaign in nine states, but here was also enthusiasm and resolute determination.
More than that the Budget is unequal to the needs of the whole number of possible recruits even as the case stands; it is therefore irrational to make one’s selection from among them by an appeal to chance.
Love is a heavy tax to pay for the vanities of the world, and in the budget of the human race women count almost exclusively on the side of expense.
High unemployment and a sizable budget deficit are currently the most serious economic problems.
To curb the budget deficit and bolster confidence in the economy, the new Social Democratic government is proposing cuts in welfare benefits, subsidies, defense, and foreign aid.
The international community provides funding for 70% of Nepal's developmental budget and for 30% of total budgetary expenditures.
The government is now turning its attention to further development of the private sector and the reduction of the budget deficit.
Copenhagen has threatened to withhold its annual subsidy of $130 million - roughly one-third of the islands' budget revenues - unless the Faroese make significant efforts to balance their budget.
We called in the expert opinion of one who had long worked in social agencies, and worked out a scheme and a budget for one drive covering all our needs.
This budget is based on the expenditures of that committee for the preceding year.
At the first council meeting of the year a budget is made out for the different committees of the League.
Sustained high oil prices in recent years have helped build Oman's budget and trade surpluses and foreign reserves.
The current account deficit remains high; however, the state budget is essentially in balance, and public debt is low.
The main challenges facing Jordan are reducing dependence on foreign grants, reducing the budget deficit, and creating investment incentives to promote job creation.
In 1997, an IMF mission to Gabon criticized the government for overspending on off-budget items, overborrowing from the central bank, and slipping on its schedule for privatization and administrative reform.
The government has also brought stability to the national budgetthus far, largely through expenditure control.
The Philippines' consistently large budget deficit has produced a high debt level, and this situation has forced Manila to spend a large portion of the national government budget on debt service.
The government faces tough choices in its attempts to boost Portugal's economic competitiveness while keeping the budget deficit within the eurozone's 3%-of-GDP ceiling.
His budget of law hung on a peg in the corner, as quite superfluous at a free-and-easy at the Fleur-de-Lis.
They were curled up on the window-seat looking over, for perhaps the tenth time, the budget of envelopes which Miss Vale had sent the night before.
Dictionary of Heresies except a Budget of Paradoxes.
I now reply to a question I have been asked again and again since my last Budget appeared: Why do you take so much trouble to expose such a reasoner as Mr. Smith?
But it was not intended that the gem should be recovered from the unfathomed cave, and set in a Budget of Paradoxes.
If you will consult the opening chapter of the Budget of Paradoxes, you will see that the author presents only works in his own library at a given date; and this for a purpose explained.
The book just named appeared about the same time as this Budget began in the Athenæum.
The Budget did terminate in March 1867: I hope the gentleman will be satisfied with the resulting interpretation.
Mr. James Smith appears to be tired of waiting for his place in the Budget of Paradoxes, and accordingly publishes a long letter to Professor De Morgan, with various prefaces and postscripts.
But this is a paradox far beyond my handling: it is a Budget of itself.
As soon as this Budget began to appear, he oiled his own strap, and attempted to treat me as the terrible Colonel would have treated the inoffensive brother.
A Nut to crack for the readers of Professor De Morgan's 'Budget of Paradoxes.
It is worthy of note that, as soon as my Budget commenced, two guardian spirits started up, fellow men as to the flesh, both totally unknown to me: they have stuck to me from first to last.
Collins, Department of Transportation Richard DiConti, National Communications System Joseph Mullinix, Office of Management and Budget Chris Shoemaker, National Security Council Charles C.
The Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Science and Technology Policy will work together to develop a cross-agency ranking of budgetary resources for earthquake preparedness for Fiscal Year 1982.
The latter urges with unanswerable logic that financial equilibrium must be maintained, and that he cannot frame a trustworthy Budget unless he knows the amount he may count on receiving from direct taxes, especially from the land-tax.
It soon appeared, however, that no amount of caution would avail to prevent the falsification of the Budget estimates under the system upon which they were then made up.
His inquiries led him to order a re-examination of the whole Budget estimates.
The Budget estimates, although framed with the utmost care which the then {139} existing system allowed of, were constantly falsified by the results.
At the same time he reformed relations of the Provincial treasuries with the Central Government so as to secure that the Budget estimates should thenceforth be a trustworthy forecast of the resources of the year.
In the second place he had to reform the whole financial system, which allowed of the Budget estimates being annually falsified by the actual results.
Then either I must resign or--probably this new Budget will lead to a General Election.
If this Budgetrow leads to a storm, and these big people get their power clipped, what's going to happen?
In many ways I was disposed to regard the 1909 Budget as a fine piece of statecraft.
She would make it the mode to live simply, even be penurious in some ways--now that she had the Villa Rosa and a season's budget of frocks.
She resolved to come home that night with a budget of news items concerning Steve's return, even bringing a rose from the floral offering that was to be placed on his desk.
Parliament decided finally that no sufficient cause had been shown to burden the colonial budget with the sum which, according to an estimate of 1910, was required to bring it to an end!
Aided by increased tax receipts from the fast-moving economy; Bangkok recorded its fourth consecutive budgetsurplus in 1991.
Problems for the l990s include an aging population, the high level of subsidies, and the struggle to keep welfare benefits within budget capabilities.
Ongoing problems for the 1990s include inadequate investment in economic infrastructure, rapidly rising medical costs, and sizable budget and trade deficits.
The government in 1990 was attempting to get the budget deficit under control and, in general, to bring economic policy in line with the recommendations of the IMF and the World Bank.
The new government has promised selective industrial intervention, some relaxation in monetary policy, and an improved social safety net, but will be constrained by the decline in output and the growing budget deficit.
Moreover, inflation and interest rates remain high, and a large budget deficit will continue to provide difficulties for a country undergoing a substantial transformation from a centrally controlled to a free market economy.
In mid-1989, the Jordanian Government began debt-rescheduling negotiations and agreed to implement an IMF program designed to gradually reduce the budget deficit and implement badly needed structural reforms.
The revenues of the jointbudget consist of the revenues of the joint ministries, the net proceeds of the customs, and the quota, or the proportional contributions of the two states.
In 1889 for the first time the Austrian budget showed a surplus, partly the result of the new import duties, partly due to a reform of taxation.
The minister of finance had to lay before them the common budget, but they could not raise money or vote taxes; after they had passed the budget the money required had to be provided by the separate parliaments.
Battling round Budget Bill; sat all night, and far into morning.
As it was, the subject dropped, and House proceeded to discuss Budget Bill.
Then we set to work seriously, and devoted the afternoon to a realisation of assets and the composition of a Budget that might have been dated without shame from Whitehall.
Propping up her double burden against a friendly stump, she sat down in front of them, as full of worry and anxiety as a Chancellor on a Budget night.