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There are so many qualified people with extensive aeronautics and aerospace backgrounds who are also politically savvy, who have had to make the hard calls to keep a project on-budget when Murphy seems to be working overtime against them, and who have a depth of knowledge in things aerospace so that they do not have to refer even soft technical questions to support staff.
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In 2010, the Ministry of Finance said off-budget funds registered a 320 billion yuan surplus—undoing almost a third of the one trillion yuan on-budget deficit.
China's Gray Budget Tom Orlik 2011
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In 1981 -- Carter's last budget year -- the on-budget not from Social Security tax receipts were $469 billion which was a 16% increase over the prior year. 1982 tax receipts were $474.3 billion, down to 1.1% over 1981, and the on-budget deficit shot up to $120 billion, a shocking increase of 62% in a single year!
Dave Johnson: Did Tax Cuts Grow The Economy? Dave Johnson 2011
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If your team does produce on-time & on-budget or under, then obviously you have too many resources - time to slice & dice.
Mission Costs: Moving the Goal Posts at NASA - NASA Watch 2009
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There are so many qualified people with extensive aeronautics and aerospace backgrounds who are also politically savvy, who have had to make the hard calls to keep a project on-budget when Murphy seems to be working overtime against them, and who have a depth of knowledge in things aerospace so that they do not have to refer even soft technical questions to support staff.
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The on-budget cost of the war in Afghanistan is up to $345 billion, not $3 billion.
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Washington has a bias towards problems that are "on-budget" for the federal government, and for good reason: Washington is where the federal government's budget gets written.
The problem is not MedicareandMedicaid. It's health care. Ezra Klein 2011
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The first is a business model that is epitomized by the use of PLAs—which are market-based tools which offer increased efficiencies, productivity, and on-time, on-budget results through a local supply of the safest, most highly trained and productive skilled-craft work force known to man.
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And, of course, the FAA has an excellent record of its major ATC-related capital investment projects coming in on-time and on-budget.
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The fundamental flaw with Ares-I and Ares-V is that even if they had zero technical problems, and came in on-time, and on-budget, they still aren't worth the opportunity cost.
Reminder - Hearing: NASA’s Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Request - NASA Watch 2009
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