Word: programer
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Right now, Congress would be willing to move much faster toward emphasizing greater energy efficiency if it received stronger leadership in this area from the White House. Even though President Carter has emphasized the importance of conservation, conservation programs were sidetracked because of the massive synthetic fuel program that Carter proposed in mid-1979. To the president's credit, however, he did make a tough, but very desirable, policy decision to decontrol oil prices...
McManus said he found "quite a few" employees who were not trained to deal with asbestos, but added that Buildings and Grounds informed him they would redirect their asbestos training program to include all Buildings and Grounds employees...
Heymann, who is on leave from the Harvard Law School Faculty, said Mendelsohn, who initiated the government program to investigate Nazi war criminals in 1977, was being reassigned because if a "personality conflict" with the director of the Office of Special Investigations, Walter J. Rockler...
...President Carter's energy program at last began staggering through Congress, but a near disaster at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania raised legitimate questions?as well as much unnecessary hysteria?about how safe and useful nuclear power will be as a partial substitute for the imported oil that the eruption in Iran will help make ever more costly. The conclusion of a SALT II agreement with the Soviet Union?more modest in scope than many Americans had urged, but basically useful to the U.S.?led to congressional wrangling that raised doubts about whether the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty will...
...undiscriminating cultural uproar. U.S. scientists enlarged the boundaries of knowledge in nuclear physics, biophysics, particle physics, biochemistry and electrooptics, among other fields. American plant biologists continued to develop the hybrid corn that remains one of this century's most important contributions to agriculture. Although the moon program was dismantled during the '70s, the two Vikings and two Voyagers probed Mars and Jupiter; now the Voyagers are proceeding to Saturn and then to even remoter reaches...