Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...asked Congress to reinstitute the military draft. Few give his bill much of a chance of reaching President Reagan's desk, but Hollings has succeeded in stirring the blood of some Capitol Hill hawks. Bolstered by the president's hesitance to eliminate the existing registration program, draft fans believe that the atmosphere in Washington will accommodate a renewal of compulsary service, if not this year, then perhaps next. As we have stated many times in the past, a military draft is a dangerous concession to the militaristic spirit and likely to exacerbate that already disturbing trend...
...survey of the entire history of scientific thought would probably show that most theories are either reduced, made simpler in format and broader in scope--or replaced, with another competing theory receiving wider acceptance. But important ideas are rarely "synthesized." Individual theories are rarely merged to answer a single program of interdisciplinary questions. But development in evolutionary and genetic throught from 1918 to 1947 provides an exception to this trend...
Reaction to the case from women's groups has mostly favored the elimination of the existing registration program, but opponents to the Equal Rights Amendment have defended the males-only signup, warning of a threat to society if women are ever forced into military service...
Leaders in Congressional debate over registration and the draft have declined to predict the possible results of a decision striking down the existing program. Staffers in the Senate and House of Representatives have said, however, that such a ruling could give supporter of the draft an excuse to re-open debate on that issue...
...strong-willed Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, who in 1962 led his two-island nation to independence from Britain; of a heart attack; in St. Anne, Trinidad. A noted historian and author of the 1944 book Capitalism and Slavery, Williams became Chief Minister in 1956 and began a program of political reform and economic development that transformed the islands into one of the most wealthy and industrialized locales in the Caribbean...