But he said as the budget grew, the administration and school board did not take taxpayer concerns seriously.
As football was growing, the administration demoted six other teams to club status, including men's tennis, men's and women's fencing, and men's swimming and diving.
And as the number of charter schools grows — the Bloomberg administration spent years lobbying state lawmakers to allow more of them to open — the number of students waiting for seats has slowly dropped.
A1 Social Security Debate Grows The Bush administration, facing opposition over its plan to overhaul Social Security, is looking at new ideas for cutting future benefits that would hit wealthy retirees harder than earners of lower wages.
When the city's budget deficits grew, the Daley administration allowed the police force to dwindle.
More recently, with the economy in the city booming and the demand for cement and computer chips growing, the Pataki administration began courting more industry.
Though the number of prisoners has grown, the Bush administration has yet to announce what it intends to do with them.
But as his doubts about his work for the Central Intelligence Agency and then for the National Security Agency grew, the Obama administration's campaign against leaks served up one case after another of disillusioned employees refashioning themselves as heroic whistle-blowers.
With the military campaign growing, the Bush administration and its allies have been working to fashion a replacement government, including the country's many ethnic and political groups, that would be brokered by the United Nations.
But as his influence ebbed and that of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice grew, the Bush administration increasingly partook in multinational efforts Mr. Cheney so traditionally disdained — a sentiment he could not express at the time.
