But many companies in APSCU and its industry lost sight of that mission and instead created fancier higher education degree programs and, worse, relentlessly pursued profits to please investors, emphasized marketing over instruction expenses, raised prices through the roof, and deceived students and government overseers alike.
At the beginning of the current fiscal year last June, the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena AirportoAuthority allocover $1 million to costs costs associated with putting the report together, but additional legal fees, planning consultant fees and outreach costs, among other expenses, raised the price to $3 million, according to a midyear budget performance review document.
Aetna has stanched its losses by trimming expenses, raising prices and turning away unprofitable business.
So they must either cut their expenses, raise more money through taxes or fees, or borrow to pay their bills.
Watchdog groups say the travel expenses raise questions of propriety, given that taxpayers nationwide are on the hook for staggering shortfalls tied to double-digit investment losses.
And the whole issue of rising expenses raises a question not easy to answer: whether it is better to spend money now to save money later.
Other expenses raise some eyebrows; Mr Edwards's haircuts, which he claimed as an expense, are one example, and Sarah Palin's campaign wardrobe, which cost the Republican Party some $150,000, is another.
THE Marshall Plan is sometimes seen as an early triumph for "conditionality" — that is, grants dependent on the recipient's cutting domestic public expenses, raising revenues and, often, firing "redundant" workers.
The town of Montclair, N.J., this year closed its budget gap through a mix of devices: trimming expenses, raising property taxes, and boosting fees on limousine and garage-sale permits as well as landscaping and arcade licenses.
Expense reduction raised operating income to $797 million vs. $714 million year-over-year.
