Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour negotiating marathon, both sides announced agreement on the work week and access to the media. The government accepted the 40-hour week in principle but would only allow three free Saturdays a month this year; in addition, Solidarity would be granted a one-hour weekly television program...
Faced with massive debts, the Warsaw government has turned increasingly to the West for loans and credits. Britain, France and West Germany already have made short-term loans to Warsaw. Next month, as many as twelve nations will meet in Paris to work out a common program for future aid to Poland. Polish Ambassador to Washington Romuald Spa-sowski last week canvassed the Reagan Administration to find out how much the U .S. might be willing to provide...
Like an artist making the first brush marks on a blank canvas, President Reagan last week set out the initial signs of his Administration's economic program. In three swift strokes, he decontrolled domestic oil prices, abolished the moribund Council on Wage and Price Stability, and placed a 60-day freeze on about 100 pending federal regulations that were issued in the final days of the Carter Administration. None of those steps will make an indelible imprint on the economy, but taken together they show that the new Administration intends to translate the program outlined during the presidential campaign...
...economic advisers last week were also putting into shape the main elements of their so-called supply-side economic strategy. Supply-siders believe that inflation and slow growth can best be cured by enhancing incentives to save, invest and work harder. The two mainstays of the Administration's program: reduced Government spending and a 10% annual tax cut for the next three years...
DIED. Olin ("Tiger") league, 70, much-decorated World War II colonel who served as a U.S. Congressman from Texas for 33 years (1946-79), tenaciously leading House battles for improved veterans' benefits and for the U.S. space program; of kidney failure and a heart attack; in Bethesda...