Characterization of the processes that govern the budget and recycling of volatile components in the Earth's interior is central to our understanding of the formation and evolution of the solid Earth, its oceans, and atmosphere (e.g., Kasting et al. 1993; Jambon 1994; Tolstikhin and Marty 1998; Deines 2002).
Until that happens, we'll be right back to governing from budget crisis to budget crisis for the foreseeable future.
If this musical had been produced by the committees of executives that usually govern big-budget entertainment, it wouldn't contain the two most R-rated four-letter words in its very first scene.
But other lawmakers were upset with the measure and the tactic of including it in a tax bill governed by budget rules that subject to a simple majority vote.
This fact led Alan Greenspan, then chairman of the Federal Reserve, to recommend abolition of the debt limit in 2003 testimony: In the Congress's review of the mechanisms governing the budget process, you may want to reconsider whether the statutory limit on the public debt is a useful device.
This means that the processes that govern their revenues and outlays are not the same as those that apply to the general government budget.
Even if Mr. Giuliani hadn't drilled this deeply into the civic discourse, the devastation from the Sept. 11 attacks and the decline in the city's revenue forecasts mean Mr. Bloomberg has to govern with severe budget cuts.
But on a more complex, less visible and arguably more troubling level, HMU also represents how tangled municipal finances became in an era when borrowing money was easy and city leaders apparently found it easy to flout basic rules governing public budgeting.
If only the rule makers knew how to govern their own budgets and cure the world's financial malaise, in which sports is a minor player.
If the central bank is to print Euros to lower borrowing costs and alleviate worries of sovereign default, then, yes, it seems perfectly reasonable that rules ought to govern how big the budget deficits can be, with a central arbiter in Brussels keeping the books in order.
As head of the subcommittee that governs the State Department budget, Mr. Gregg can block money for foreign policy without hearings, debate or votes.
