"The usual budgeteer's philosophy," said a Congressional aide who has helped write many budgets, is "don't do anything you don't have to."

The Budgeteer went back to once a week, cut staff and - in its most dramatic change - went from a traditional broadsheet to a tabloid-format newspaper.

A senior staff member who has been involved in many budget sessions over the years remarked, "It's the usual budgeteer's philosophy: don't do anything you don't have to."

Despite his braggadocio, Mr. Hoving, the son of a Fifth Avenue merchandising tycoon, proved to be an able administrator and budgeteer.

Over the years, the paper has had various names, including "The Budgeter", "The Family Budgeter", and "The Budgeteer Press."

Linda LeGarde Grover - University of Minnesota Duluth American Indian Studies professor and Duluth Budgeteer columnist.

The Duluth Budgeteer News (or known locally as The Budgeteer or simply The Budge) is a newspaper in Duluth, Minnesota.

Mr. Dinkins appointed Michael P. Jacobson, a 38-year-old professional budgeteer with a doctorate in sociology who has worked with criminal justice agencies in the Office of Management and Budget for eight years.

Local newspapers include the BusinessNorth monthly, the Duluth News Tribune, the Duluth Budgeteer News, the free newspapers http://www.transistormag.com/Transistor, The Zenith, and The Reader Weekly.

With this model there has been a tendency, historically based, for the domination of the budgeteer/economic approach at the expense of the accountant/ financial management approach, which has led to accounting practice being strongly influenced by the budgeteer.