Word: programer
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...near certainty that the protocol will expire well before its temporary cruise missile limitations can be permanently extended. Under these changed circumstances, SALT as a whole becomes less valuable to the Soviets, since one of their main purposes is to use the negotiations to impede the American cruise missile program...
...soothe offended feelings, British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington sent a personal cable to Saudi King Khalid expressing his own "profound regret" over the program. To some members of Parliament, that smacked of unwarranted groveling. Complained Labor M.P. David Winnick: "It is undignified to see a British Foreign Secretary virtually apologizing to a feudal state about what has been shown on TV in this country...
These attempts range from experiments to reduce assembly-line monotony to employee stock-purchase or profit-sharing plans that give workers a larger stake in company earnings. The furthest reaching program is West German co-determination, which allots workers and management equal numbers of seats on the supervisory boards of large firms. But both sides have become somewhat disenchanted with the system. Management charges that union representatives have leaked board secrets, like plans to lay off employees. Workers claim that they are usually outvoted on the board by the employers, who have a tie-breaking extra vote in case...
...Western Europe, where planning within capitalism originated, such government direction has fallen into disfavor. France's Le Plan has operated since 1946, but the program is now virtually ignored; the Eighth Plan, covering 1981-85, will not even contain specific growth targets. In the past, programs directed by the French government produced too many white elephants, like the supersonic Concorde and the steelmaking complex near Marseille, that look brilliant to a bureaucrat but flop in the marketplace. Admits François de Combret, the top French presidential economic adviser: "A bureaucrat like myself, with his butt in a chair...
...That was my mistake. I promised there'd never be any link. I meant it when I said it. By the time the program finally got approved, McCord was the only game in town and I used him. I shouldn't have. Magruder never knew about McCord...