Word: programer
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Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc., the manufacturer of Valium, as well as the sister drug Librium, says that it agreed with the FDA wording "to help ensure continuation of the appropriate use of our products." In fact, the drug maker backed a continuing medical education program under Dr. Theodore Cooper, outgoing dean of the Cornell University Medical College and former HEW Assistant Secretary for Health. The program's announced purpose was to educate doctors on the diagnosis and treatment of the consequences of stress. Critics charge, however, that it was only a subtle effort to promote continued sales of tranquilizers...
...battlefield tactician, Jimmy Carter last week jetted halfway round the world in a two-pronged attack on the problems of the American auto industry. First he summoned auto-company officials to a 7:05-a.m. meeting at Detroit's Metro Airport to announce a $1 billion Government assistance program. Then he hopped back aboard Air Force One and flew off to Tokyo for a memorial service honoring the late Japanese Prime Minister, Masayoshi Ohira. Though autos were not on the agenda of the President's 21-hour stay in Tokyo, his Japanese hosts could hardly overlook the well...
Specifics of the Carter program...
...Japan would have given the Soviets all they could handle. But now gymnastic heart throb Kurt Thomas is an ABC sports commentator, and the wrestlers are mourning their lost opportunity. Says Don Krone, staff administrator for the A.A.U.'s wrestling division: "It may set our program back two or three years." With the U.S. men's basketball team at home, the gold medal should easily revert to the towering Soviets...
...faction and special-interest group, had something to cheer about, and perhaps to jeer about as well. Antiabortion campaigners were rewarded with a politically touchy decision that will nearly eliminate Medicaid-financed abortions. Civil rights activists were pleased by the court's approval of a federal public works program setting aside 10% of funds for minority-run businesses, but dismayed by a decision that perpetuated a white-dominated electoral system in Mobile, Ala. Free-speech champions got more than they had hoped for in a ruling guaranteeing open criminal trials, but were stunned earlier by the court...