Word: programer
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...unemployment has increased from 5.7 per cent in 1970 to 12.5 per cent in 1980. Of those who are employed, thousands earn no more than $480 (US) per year in a country whose cost of living is comparable to our own. Chile has no welfare or unemployment compensation program, no national or private health insurance system...
...Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) vesterday filed a complaint with the federal Department of Labor charging that Harvard's affirmative action program in tenuring is inadequate...
That little joke is currently making the rounds at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. But the troubling fact is that U.S. officials have little to smile about when they look at the burgeoning Soviet space program. The faltering U.S. effort has been plagued by repeated delays of the space shuttle (now scheduled for launch no earlier than next March), while the Soviets have been forging steadily onward, setting the stage for permanent occupation of space...
Instead of a blanket inclusion in the program of all suppliers, the Carter Administration wants a more modest, and less costly, reform. This would extend coverage only to suppliers of actual, essential components. What is more, such companies would have to show that at least 50% of their output had been going to the firm being directly hit by the import competition...
...past ten years the number of federal programs like TAA that have been designed to ease the pain of joblessness, spur retraining and supplement the assistance provided under existing unemployment programs has swelled from nine to 18. There are now, for example, special programs for out-of-work West Coast lumber mill hands, ones to locate jobs for unemployed railroad workers, and a new program to find employment for airline employees who are let go as a result of deregulation. The mishmash of programs clearly needs a thorough re-examination rather than just some further tinkering...