Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press briefing at the White House, Reagan announced that he had decided to go ahead with production of both the MX missile and the B-1 bomber. Those much disputed weapons systems would be part of a $180 billion modernization of America's nuclear forces, a program that would upgrade all three legs of the nation's strategic triad of air, sea- and land-based nuclear weapons. With Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger at his side, Reagan said he plans to deploy at least 100 MX missiles, which are capable of traveling 8,000 miles and dropping their warheads...
Though serious doubts remain about the wisdom of Reagan's package, the President will probably win most, if not all, of his program from a defense-minded Congress. And the President pointedly remarked at his briefing that he considered all the new weapons systems negotiable in any future arms talks with Moscow. But the judgment still lingers that Reagan, after claiming that the U.S. had allowed a window of vulnerability to fly open, had still failed to shut it tight. -By James Kelly. Reported by Bruce W. Nelan/Washington
...this day," said Ronald Reagan at the opening of his press conference last Thursday, "our economic recovery program begins." With the start of the 1982 fiscal year on Oct. 1, some $35 billion in budget cuts enacted by Congress last summer took effect. Social programs that had been expanding rapidly for decades began to shrink, and the nation embarked, at least for a time, on a different economic and philosophic course...
...Agriculture Department. "They are as negotiable as regular currency is. People have learned, unfortunately, that you can use a food stamp to buy a lot of things besides food"-meaning almost everything from clothes to cocaine. The major thievery is done by organized crime rings that have infiltrated the program as a way to launder money. For example, a criminal syndicate that owns a check-cashing service may buy stamps from recipients with tainted cash, then have a meat market it also owns forward the stamps to Washington for reimbursement...
Veterans Benefits. The great-granddaddy of all entitlements, this program pays benefits for both service-connected and non-service-connected disabilities to veterans of conflicts ranging from the Spanish-American War to Viet Nam, some of whom served for as little as 90 days, plus their widows and dependents. Roughly 5 million people are collecting $11 billion a year, and their lobby is so powerful that the Reagan Administration has proposed no changes whatever...