Word: program
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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FOREIGN AID: The world's "fundamental and great problem'' is "to bring two billion men out of poverty and in the direction of economic progress.'' and the best way to get on with the job is a joint East-West cooperative program (a program that has no U.S. support...
...showed no signs of being disturbed at the obviously minor clashes on policy. Rather, the whole Washington program seemed aimed at convincing De Gaulle that the U.S. takes him at his full worth?perhaps in hopes that differences will thaw once he is so reassured. The official kid-glove treatment ranged from the right food at state dinners (simple meals, no sauce on the steaks) to carefully planned walking requirements (since he is too vain to wear his thick glasses a moment more than necessary, De Gaulle's every step in strange territory is a source of trouble...
During his two-day tour of Iowa, Symington pounded hard on a handy theme: the farmer and his problems. His own twelve-point farm program, he told a Democratic luncheon in Waterloo, is better and less costly than Ezra Benson's "phantom farm program." In Davenport, Symington turned his attention to the need for water resources: "In the dictionary of Republicanism, as proven by their plans and their budgets, the fate of a river is to flow wastefully to the sea. Democrats, however, believe that every great river offers a challenge to invest in a better America...
...crime-repeat rates after Medical Facility treatment and after ordinary imprisonment contain no pat answer, because of the way inmates are assigned and legal technicalities (e.g., a paroled felon is thrown back in the pen for committing a misdemeanor, though he may be close to "going straight"). A research program is under way to grade the expectations for a prisoner's future when he is committed, and test this prediction against his later performance...
...make Olivetti's U.S. investment pay off, President Galassi has completely reorganized Underwood. He cut $1,000,000 from Underwood's engineering program for money-losing computers, halted production of bookkeeping machines and portable typewriters, which were not competitive, and stopped bidding for low-profit defense contracts...