Word: programing
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...past ten years, Harvard football has meant Joe Restic. Rarely does the coach of a football team dominate a program the way Restic does the Crimson. The coach's trademark--and occasionally his cross to bear--is the Multiflex, an offensive system that provides a multitude of formations, daring plays, and backfield-in-motion penalties each game. It is a rare football crowd that collectively giggles at anything, but when the Harvard team lines up with its famous no-backfield set, that is the sound emanating from the bleachers. The Multiflex, alas, is more pretty than successful. Though Restic...
...week's end the government's problems produced a Cabinet shuffle that unseated three ministers. Among them was Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, who was reportedly sacked for failing to produce an economic recovery program. Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski, an army general, turned to two fellow officers to fill vacant posts: General Czeslaw Kiszczak as Interior Minister, and General Tadeusz Hupalowski as Minister of Administration...
According to CARE Executive Director Philip Johnston, the program was inspired by a worried wave of calls, letters and donations from Polish Americans. When the organization first approached Polish authorities in early May about the possibility of sending food aid, says the CARE spokesman, "their reaction was remarkably favorable." The final agreement, signed in Warsaw in June, allows CARE to supervise distribution of the packages. They will be sent to the neediest groups: the elderly, young children, pregnant women and nursing mothers. The spectacle of capitalist charity aiding the victims of Communist economic shortcomings was heavy with political symbolism. Said...
...House of Representatives last week voted to maintain the $122-per-month minimum level for Social Security benefits, but that action will certainly not end the controversy surrounding the troubled program. Harvard's Martin Feldstein, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, looks at the problems of Social Security and some proposed solutions...
...recognize that Social Security has major financial problems that can be solved only by slowing the growth of benefits. The Social Security Administration's own actuaries predict that the retirement fund will be out of money by 1984. Fancy financial footwork can avert bankruptcy that year, but the program's long-term problems cannot be avoided...