Word: program
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...American Standard," another serial program, two college-age characters both named Andrew look to improve their social lives by getting lessons in dealing with women from a character known as the Kung...
...site also includes an interactive program called "Virtual Rob," where viewers can click on the character and his surroundings and watch him respond, and "PopVox," which displays lyrics along side music videos...
...become conventional wisdom on Capitol Hill that the U.S. needs a system of interceptor missiles, deployed in Alaska, that will be able to shoot down any incoming missiles from North Korea or other "rogue" states. Skeptics point out that despite $60 billion of investment in Reagan's "Star Wars" program and a further $10 billion envisaged by the Clinton administration, an even relatively fail-safe system of interceptor missiles remains a pipe dream. Still, that hasn't deterred either Congress or the White House from championing the program...
...Unimpressed by Washington's insistence that the program is directed against rogue states, the Russians complain that the missile defense system eviscerates the whole basis of the ABM treaty: that both sides have an equally destructive attacking force. They argue that missile defense neutralizes an opponent's missile fleet, which creates a disparity that they are not prepared to live with. But building missiles is a lot cheaper than building anti-missile systems, so the response to an opponent's defense system is to simply build more missiles than it could eliminate - hence the Russian warning that...
...that 12-hour shifts will lead to more driving hours in which truckers are fatigued. The American Trucking Association, meanwhile, argues that truckers' livelihoods would be hurt because the regulation would limit their maximum hours - particularly on jobs that are time-sensitive. No matter how you slice it, the program would be costly both to drivers and to shipping companies. And that, of course, means higher prices to consumers, with one federal agency estimating that the economy will take a $3.4 billion hit over 10 years. It's too bad they can't e-mail those goods we order online...