Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...U.S.S. Ranger is one tough ship. Captain Dan Pedersen sets a high standard for discipline, and his aircraft carrier is well equipped to contend with those who fail to meet it. Persistent rule breakers are confined to the correctional custody unit (CCU), where they are subjected to "retraining"-a program of drills and indoctrination designed to reinstill the lessons of boot camp or, as one veteran puts it, "to make you feel stupid and look stupider." Further instruction may be given in the brig-a solitary cell where the diet is sometimes bread and water...
...particularly the underprivileged classes and the youth, will finally feel, we hope, that it is better liked, better understood and better protected." Virtually no one, apart from Socialist and Communist idealogues, saw the leftist victory as a sign of popular support for Mitterrand's nationalization and economic reform program. Rather, as Journalist Jean-François Revel put it, Giscard's "strange defeat was due to the most common illness among those who exercise power: the loss of contact with reality...
...consequences" Giscard had campaigned most strongly against was Mitterrand's bold plan for economic and social reform. In addition to nationalizing the country's remaining private banks and eleven basic industries, including mining, communications and aerospace, Mitterrand's program calls for the creation of 210,000 public sector jobs, a higher minimum wage, tax hikes for the wealthy and a 35-hour work week. Critics see this as a guarantee of more inflation, more balance of payments deficits and a weaker franc...
...real criticism of Mitterrand's economic program is not so much that it will precipitate disaster; it is rather that the whole concept of nationalization and Keynesian government intervention seems to belong to an outmoded 1960s-style of economic tinkering that has failed wherever it has been tried. Mitterrand seems to be marching to a distant and offbeat drummer and in the wrong direction. "This [nationalization] project," writes Historian Raymond Aron, "bears witness to the Socialist Party's archaic ideas." Says a prominent French banker: "The French don't do anything like other people. At the moment...
...four years later the party accepted the Socialists' idea of a Common Program. During that period of thaw, the P.C.F. dropped the notion of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" from its charter. As the Socialists increased in popularity, the Communists recoiled in envy. The Common Program fell apart prior to the 1978 legislative elections. Some old Communist habits made a comeback: the P.C.F. was the only Western European Communist party, for example, to endorse the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...