Word: program
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...these days, not everyone is on the Vice President's bandwidth. His biggest high-tech achievement to date is a program to wire every classroom and library in the country. He has heralded it as "a turning point that [will] transform the shape of America." But right now, the program is under assault from Congress as an out-of-control entitlement engineered by an out-of-control bureaucracy. Which does not do much for Gore's reputation as the architect of reinventing government. Even more ominous is another threat: starting this summer, phone companies that were ordered...
What once seemed an unassailable idea is now ensnared in presidential politics, the byzantine workings of phone deregulation and the design flaws of a funding scheme that camouflages the costs of a huge new federal program by putting it on people's phone bills. Only 75 days into the first round of applications for the program's money, about 30,000 schools and libraries have rushed in to claim $2 billion, far outstripping the $625 million the Federal Communications Commission has collected from the phone companies. This has left the commission with the unpalatable option of scaling back its promises...
...chairman of the committee when a promising young member named Al Gore was selling the intriguing concept of an "information superhighway." But Dingell is far from alone. Commerce Senators who have reviewed the thousands of grant applications pouring in complain that schools are attempting to use the program to buy everything from carpeting and paint to computers that exceed the power of those at NASA. What's more, lawmakers grouse, why should the Federal Government pay for something many schools would do on their...
...easy 200 bucks? If you are a university professor specializing in business, math or computer science and are about to present your research paper at an academic conference, Microsoft will slip you a check for $200 to cover "travel costs." All you have to do is mention how Microsoft programs helped you in your work. The offer is part of a promotional program called "The Academic Cooperative," which maintains its own web site on the Internet. The web site, which runs on the Idaho State University server, makes no overt mention of Microsoft, but the education-oriented promotional material...
...start trimming," says Branegan. But so far Habibie is making the right noises: He's dumped Suharto's eldest daughter from his cabinet, along with Mohamad "Bob" Hasan, one of Indonesia's richest men and a golfing buddy of the former president, and has pledged to follow the IMF program to the letter...