Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some GM dealers say that the interest-rate publicity is helping sales in a normally slow period. Dick Shirley, general manager of Don Mealey Chevrolet in Orlando, Fla., reports that the program boosted his sales by 67% during the first half of August over the same period in July. Other dealers are angry because they are partially paying for the loan scheme; GM has cut the commission it pays to dealers for steering customers to GMAC. Yet after two years of a dismally poor car market, salesmen are happy to back any plan that helps to move autos...
...neglect and unrealistic pricing. The phone service, for example, is primitive because politically popular low prices (1.6? for a local call) have made it impossible to raise money to modernize telecommunications facilities. But if Papandreou and PASOK become the country's new rulers and start a massive program of nationalizations, Greece's economy will be headed for turmoil and uncertainty...
...school after the seventh grade and had only recently passed a high school equivalency test, began reading medical texts, looking for clues. Then, thinking she could learn even more by working at a hospital, she began a one-year course to become a licensed practical nurse. The program offered on-the-job training at Baptist Hospital; when she graduated she joined the staff. In her free time, she inquired about procedures and the doctors who had cared for Becky...
...year-old Job Corps is one of the very few social programs spared by the recent Reagan budget slash. There have been some criticisms about the cost, budgeted for $620 million next year. The total expense for each of the 42,000 trainees who will be enrolled in 1982 ranges from $5,000 to $13,000 a year. But partly because some Job Corps centers are run by private companies, and provide job training for the private sector, the program won support from conservative lawmakers. Says Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee: "This...
...placement rate is probably far lower than 90%. Still, the ties that some centers have with business and labor help a good deal in placement. At Clearfield Job Corps Center near Salt Lake City, for instance, 170 of about 1,500 trainees last year completed an advanced automotive training program run in conjunction with the United Auto Workers...