Buried in the Budget The spending of all the nation's intelligence agencies, an estimated $28 billion a year, is disguised within the Pentagon's budget through false accounting mechanisms and bogus line items.

"They're an accounting mechanism to show the Federal Government how grant money is spent," he said.

In the Soviet economy, prices were an accounting mechanism only.

Furthermore, the Court held that the gambling chips were not property but "merely an accounting mechanism to evidence debt."

But donor countries have refused to turn over most of the $2.4 billion promised to the Palestinian Authority over the next five years, saying that Mr. Arafat has not yet established proper accounting mechanisms.

He also told him about an accounting mechanism that was said to improperly keep the costs of failed bids off Enron's books.

Hence, memory becomes an accounting mechanism for computing the energy costs of behavior.

"Acquisition" VAT is payable when goods are acquired in one EU member state from another EU member state (this is done not at the border but through an accounting mechanism).

Since it is an accounting mechanism it does not require any physical equipment changes, unless a unidirectional electric meter exists, which must be replaced or reprogrammed to allow bi-directional operation.

You have approved the recasting of the financial regulation and the Commission's proposals on financial incentives for top grade officials, although I note that you have some concerns about the Commission's accounting mechanisms.