Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thick aluminum and fiberglass rotodome attached to the fuselage by two 11-ft. pylons. The radar was designed to work in tandem with an onboard high-speed computer, and its data is displayed on nine or more separate consoles inside the plane. It is this computer phalanx, with a program that can be amended in flight, that makes the AWACS a surpassingly powerful military tool...
Though he may not have been hurdling any tables, Reagan was gradually easing himself back into his job. He placed two dozen or so calls during the week to Congressmen and others to lobby for their support of his economic program. Assisted by Speechwriter Ken Khachigian, he began drafting the address he will deliver this week to a joint session of Congress. He read briefing papers daily and even found time to dip into a book chronicling the physical ailments of previous White House occupants. He also met with eight Governors-seven Republicans and one Democrat, Forrest James of Alabama...
Ronald Reagan routinely asked the White House switchboard last week to find Democratic Congressman Tom Bevill of Alabama so the legislator could be coaxed to support the President's economic program. Ever efficient, the operators found the lawmaker in New Zealand, where it was 4 a.m. The President gushed apologies for waking the Congressman at such an hour. Recalled Reagan: "I wanted to tell him that I was somebody else. It was too late. He knew...
Grass-roots opposition to the Reagan budget cuts and tax changes remains surprisingly muted, but the lawmakers discovered during the recess that it clearly is growing. Whether it poses any real threat to eventual enactment of the President's full program will not become clear until congress gets down to work on it in the coming weeks. As political partisans, the congressmen tended to hear what they wanted to hear, of course. They were reminded often that the stakes are high in the current economic debate, for their parties as well as for the nation. Predicted Republican Congressman...
...days, Ronald Reagan got no major legislation passed; not a single program became operative, and he held only two press conferences in two months. He is, however, the only President in the past ten years to have worn white tie and tails three times, chopped half a cord of wood, ridden a horse, shortened the Inaugural parade, received a ton of jelly beans, got eight pints of new blood and floated enough good humor to buoy, after a 17-year drought, the hopes of those people who compile books on presidential wit. But these things are not the stuff...