Word: programer
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...nation's largest newspaper, editorialized: "The people are victims of overkill-let us vote and be done with it." So they did. When the 4.7 million ballots were counted, the pronukes had a clear majority: 58% voted yes, favoring completion of the country's half-finished nuclear program; only 39% voted for a proposal to abandon the country's reactor program...
...first plebiscites on the nuclear issue, the Swedish vote was watched closely in Western Europe. In Denmark, it was believed to have reinforced public sentiment in favor of starting a nuclear program to reduce the country's 95% dependence on imported energy. In Zurich, where a referendum will be held on April 27 concerning a sixth reactor, proponents of the project were encouraged...
...last week's referendum proved, even such foreboding examples as the accident at Three Mile Island could not compete with Palme's prediction of widespread unemployment, recession and burdensome new energy costs if the reactor program were shut down. That was particularly clear in the six districts where reactors already operate: there the yes vote won by as much...
...work at all but from civilian contracting. Boeing has always been a vitally important supplier of high technology to the Pentagon, having produced, among other things, the Minuteman missile, the AWACS (airborne early warning radar system) and a space tug to carry satellites in NASA's Space Shuttle program. Other aerospace competitors, like McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed, do far more defense-related business. Boeing last year drew only about $1.5 billion, or 17% of total revenues, from Government contracts...
Company executives hope that the cruise will now be a harbinger of more Government business. Even though the House Armed Services Committee last week voted to block funding of the Pentagon's $6 billion to $7 billion C-X transport plane program planned for the mid-1980s, engineers are at work on designs and mockups. The new plane would be used for the rapid transport of forces to hot spot areas like the Middle East. Says...