Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...School faculty will vote today on a proposal which recommends that the Law Review delay implementation of its controversial affirmative action program for one year...
While the committee set no specific date for putting the program into operation. Wolf said elementary students could begin discussing moral issues at an early age, adding that the program would probably be run on a trial basis at first as soon as a curriculum...
Highways. In 1956 Congress launched what President Dwight Eisenhower proclaimed to be "the greatest public works program in history": the interstate highway system. Now in its silver anniversary year, the 42,500-mi. network is only 94% finished, but 8,000 miles of pavement are so badly worn that they must be rebuilt. Though the U.S. Government has picked up 90% of the $79 billion tab for interstate construction so far, it has given the states almost no money for maintenance and state legislatures have been slow to provide funds to keep up the highways. To make matters worse, Congress...
President Reagan does not intend to launch a major new public works spending program. In fact, as part of his budget-cut plans, he hopes to carve $31 billion out of federal spending on transportation over the next five years. The highway program would lose $11.2 billion, and mass-transit aid would be trimmed by $12 billion. Though Congress is expected to approve a large portion of the Reagan cuts, some lawmakers argue that the reductions are shortsighted. Says Democratic Congressman Henry Reuss of Wisconsin, the chairman of the Joint Economic Committee: "The whole thrust of the Reagan program...
...business connections are tenuous, and how he made all those millions is never clear. Mrs. Oleson, who with her husband runs the general store in Little House on the Prairie, reneges on an agreement to buy honey from children. In the series Alice, the son of the program's star urges her to work somewhere else because of the low wages paid by Mel, owner of the diner where she works as a waitress. Shirley, a black former cab driver who was the wise and friendly heroine of One in a Million, inherited a conglomerate, but she was counterpointed...