The president had budgeted $1 billion himself in his 2012 budget proposal but as recently as mid-February 2011, Transportation Sec. Ray LaHood was encouraging Congress to authorize $53 billion over the next six years.
Mr. Schepisi produced the moderately budgeted ($9 million) "Last Orders" himself.
Its success insured that, for the remainder of his career, Lean would devote himself exclusively to big-budget epics.
He hired a couple of editors, an artistic assistant and a marketing expert, gave himself a budget and a deadline and got busy.
For the mayor himself, the budget process has included committee discussions in public buildings, breakfasts in diners and a meeting with a handful of neighbors and family members in a private home.
"Senator Santorum goes to Washington and calls himself a budget hawk, and after he's been there a while, he says he's no longer a budget hawk," Mr. Romney said, his voice rising for emphasis as he looked out at the row of cameras before him.
Unsurprisingly, then, there was outrage (even privately among ministers) when it emerged that, for the prime minister himself, the budget contained not pain but an analgesic of monstrous proportions.The biggest threat to Mr Berlusconi was never his various trials, even if some could still cause trouble.
He tried not to consume himself with the budget crisis.
Those who favour yet more government spending are upset over Mr Koizumi's refusal to commit himself to another budget.
After proving himself in low-budget films, Dmytryk was assigned "A" productions, beginning with the sentimental Tender Comrade (1943).
