Word: program
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...outsiders have doubts. Last fall a blue-ribbon panel concluded there is "unusual fragmentation and confusion" about who is running the program. After January's miss, the Pentagon's top weapons tester said the Administration has put "undue pressure" on the Pentagon to "meet an artificial decision point." Even the Pentagon's documents show that a decision to build the defense system will be made only when 45% of the proposed hardware has been shown to work. In fact, there is concern that the new, more powerful booster--which will shake the kill vehicle 10 times as hard...
...that runs Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system--most new Pocket PC-running machines feature color, digital music players, handwriting recognition and ClearType, a way to make pages more readable on small screens--Palm remains the standard in the handheld world. There are something like 3,000 programs written for the Palm OS and only a few hundred for the Microsoft platform. Among those 3,000 programs are applications that easily work with virtually every Microsoft program, rendering compatibility with your favorite desktop software a nonissue...
...wasn't particularly big, but I still couldn't imagine pulling off being Principal for a Day with this pimple on my chin. No one is going to accept detention from Principal Zit. Nevertheless, I had already agreed to be part of this program to raise awareness about public schools, so I set off to accomplish the two things I've wanted to do since I was 15: find out what teachers talk about in the faculty lounge and commandeer the p.a. system. I was going to use my light-rock deejay voice and keep repeating that principal...
...German Big Business is slowly catching on. A number of large corporations, especially those engaged in international trade, have started training programs to help women join management ranks. Volkswagen has a program to train 18 women a year--admittedly a small number--for a corporate level where there are 800 managers. The women, mostly engineers already employed by the company, get a year of coaching as preparation for entry-level management jobs...
...labor in the main offices, Dyke's description of the organization as being overmanaged and underled could seem a euphemism. During his seven-year reign, Dyke's predecessor John Birt created an unpopular and labyrinthine business bureaucracy in which 190 separate units handled interdepartmental dealings, especially those between the program commissioning and production sides. The Birt system was designed to instill accountability into an organization that got $3.4 billion of its $4.5 billion in annual revenues from a license fee levied on every TV-owning household, and had little respect for budgetary discipline. But the pendulum swung too far. Under...