The elimination of the so-called line-item veto, he said, deprived the president of a valuable tool for eliminating wasteful spending — "pork," in Washington terminology — from U.S. budgets.
These non-technical skills are required in two main areas: (1) to understand customer demands and (2) to relate the technical aspects of jobs in terminologies for budgeting and decision-making purposes.
This terminology seriously misrepresents the nature of the budget dispute, as everyone in the debate has acknowledged.
Officially, the provost is the chief academic and budget officer — the chief operating officer, to use the terminology of the business world.
Decision-makers with budget responsibility often are not familiar with the specific terminology from health economics, for example PSA and cost-effectiveness acceptability curves.
Learn the accounting principles required for informed managerial decisions, such as cost terminology, cost behavior, cost systems, activity-based costing, budgeting, cost-volume-profit analysis, cost estimating, variance analysis, and responsibility accounting.
Budget wine connoisseurs should be ready to do research and read reviews, which will be heavy with terminology referring to the 5 S's: see, swirl, sniff, sip and savor.
Leading the charge is, of course, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta who almost daily uses terminology like "doomsday," "catastrophe," and more recently "shooting ourselves in the head" to describe anything less than a defense budget perpetually growing from this year on out.
The terminology is revealing.
