The $900 million figure proposed in the president's fiscal 2004 budget is still greater than that provided by any previous administration.
But that's still far below the figure proposed by the Archbishop, which suggests any plans he has are still in the putative stage and some years off.
His fellow Republican, County Executive Thomas S. Gulotta, who has the power to veto any tax increase, said yesterday that the 16.3percentt figure proposed by the Democrats who control the County Legislature was too high.
If the limit to numbers Britain can take is to be determined by the generosity of the public then there is no reason why those given sanctuary could not far exceed in number the original 3,000 figure proposed.
All political parties are offering post-election spending increases for the NHS but none are even reaching the minimum £8bn figure proposed by Simon Stevens in his recent Five Year Forward View.
Third terms — think of Ed Koch, Mario Cuomo, or George Pataki — are rarely smooth, and, back in March, amid the public anger over bonuses paid to A.I.G. executives, a prominent political figure proposed the following scenario.
Last month, the mayor suggested that she might cut as many as 500 of the 1,100 jobs in the city's work force, including nearly half of its Police and Fire Departments, but officials now say the figure proposed to the state is lower.
MAGAZINE An article on Page 22 this weekend about the debt-deal negotiations last summer between President Obama and Congress misstates the difference in the revenues suggested by the so-called Gang of Six committee and the initial figure proposed by the president.
