Word: programing
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Like the ceremony, the program of music relied heavily on the traditional with a felicitous overlay of the modern. There was everything from Handel to favorite hymns of Charles (Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation) and of Diana (I Vow to Thee, My Country) to a lilting yet regal new anthem by Welsh Composer William Mathias, 46. The ceremony ended with God Save the Queen, newly arranged by Sir David Willcocks, director of the Royal College of Music, who worked the oceanic swell of that great melody into a kind of coda of moral grandeur. As the anthem died, cheers...
Thatcher backs jobs program...
...closely identified with the program of austerity that her enemies have caustically dubbed it "Thatcherism" -a campaign to revive the economy and curb inflation by following a stern policy of tight money and cutbacks in government spending. Even when the unemployment rate for young Britons rose to 34% and the demand for jobs became one of the causes of the riots in the major cities, she insisted that she would not compromise. But last week, as mobs still rioted in Liverpool on the eve of the royal wedding, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher abruptly turned away from a key phase...
...goal of the plan is to put 500,000 young people (ages 16 and 17) either to work or in specialized instruction programs by 1983. The government-financed on-the-job training will be expanded from 440,000 slots to 550,000. Some 50,000 teen-agers will be encouraged to stay in school or to take vocational courses. To open up more jobs for young people, the program will beef up retirement benefits for elderly workers. To encourage firms to sign up teenagers, the government will pay $28 for every employee under 18 who earns $74 a week...
...program was the result of the most acrimonious Cabinet debate of Thatcher's two-year reign as Prime Minister. Says one minister: "Margaret came under very heavy fire, with raised voices around the table." The attack was led by Tory moderates who argued for a much more sweeping proposal that would guarantee schooling, training or work for every 16-year-old. Cost: $2.3 billion a year. In the end, Deputy Prime Minister and Home Secretary William Whitelaw and Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, the Cabinet heavyweights, backed the reduced plan, and Thatcher and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe...