Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time, the New York Transit Authority is proposing to cut back its maintenance program and curtail service. The city's subways are already a Stygian underworld, with filthy, overcrowded trains careening at high speeds one moment, then stalling for eternities with lights out and passengers steaming...
Colombia, like other drug-producing countries, is not about to kill off its lucrative marijuana crops until the U.S. sprays its own fields. The DEA is quietly planning a paraquat program that would involve Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Conspicuous by their absence on this list are California, Oregon and Hawaii, the top marijuana producers. The DEA fears political fallout in the two Western states and rules out the islands because of logistical problems. If the DEA gets its way, the first state to be sprayed will be Florida. Although not a leading marijuana grower, Florida...
Even so, Clausen may still have to back off from at least some of the super-generous loan proposals made by his predecessor. Before he stepped down last month, McNamara, 65, set in motion an ambitious program to expand World Bank lending, already at $12 billion annually, to a full $30 billion by 1985, Raising that much money may simply be beyond the World Bank's powers without huge infusions of new capital from...
...version, commercial banks as well) to pay an interest rate equal to 70% of the going twelve-month Treasury bill rate. The certificates would become available for one year beginning Oct. 1, after which Congress would decide whether or not to renew the program. By some estimates, sales of certificates could reach $200 billion...
...Silverman, whose shrewd instincts once earned him the sobriquet the Man with the Golden Gut? Answer: a combination of great expectations, poor management and bad luck. When Silverman took over the network, too many people-himself included -believed he could reverse the tailspin with little more than some savvy program shuffling. But there were few winners to shuffle, and no Dallas-size megabits that can help a network vault from third place to first. Says Ethel Winant, Silverman's vice president of mini-series and novels-for-TV: "You can't snap your fingers and change the schedule...