Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan's audience impressed by a sometimes eloquent and even courageous speech. He tried hard to convince the N.A.A.C.P. delegates that federal programs had enslaved blacks instead of helping them. Said the President: "Many in Washington over the years have been more dedicated to making needy people Government dependent, rather than independent. They've created a new kind of bondage. Just as the Emancipation Proclamation freed black people 118 years ago, today we need to declare an economic emancipation." Reagan's essential message: blacks will progress financially only when the entire economy improves. "Rebuilding America...
...hospital was a dump," he says. "That was when I cried. I had to beg for a wheelchair. The physical therapy program was a joke." The wound he suffered at the forgotten hill in the Central Highlands left him paralyzed, but the wounds he incurred at home galvanized him into action. Says he: "I had always been respectful to authority. Now I knew that I either had to fight these guys or let them control...
...group has fought for extension of G.I. Bill benefits, a targeted employment program, and improved counseling services. But Bobby Muller also has a broader vision: "What we need to do is put the war in proper perspective and understand the reasons for our failure...
...ouster was formal proof that Deng had succeeded in his four-year struggle to shift the balance of power in the Peking leadership and win wide-based acceptance for his program to speed up China's economic growth. To fight Hua and his supporters, Deng had carefully put together a coalition of his own composed of thousands of officials who had been ignominiously disgraced-like Deng and Hu themselves-during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, returning from exile only after Mao's death. Under Deng, this group has sought to free China from the rigid constraints Maoism...
Although Spadolini personally represents political change, his government turned out to be more of the same. Out of his 27-member Cabinet, there are 15 Christian Democrats, and they hold the key posts of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Justice, Treasury and Industry. Moreover, Spadolini this week presents a program to parliament much like that of his predecessor, Arnaldo Forlani. In fact, the Italian economy is so dangerously out of control that any government would have few alternatives...