Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...together by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Apollo capsules that went to the moon are Model T artifacts in comparison. Columbia, with booster rockets and fuel tank, weighs 2.7 million Ibs.; it is controlled by computers loaded with more than 600,000 lines of exquisitely precise program codes; it has pumps the size of trash cans that can discharge superheated gases at the rate of half a ton a second. Barring the reality of flying saucers, Columbia is the most ambitious and versatile spacecraft ever contrived. Heretofore, space explorers have had to blast payloads into the heavens with...
Shanks said the movement will probably pick up momentum as people realize that Reagan "will continue the militaristic program established by (President) Carter." But like many of his fellow protesters, he views the whole battle with a dissatisfied resignation, saying, "All in all, the whole situation is not very promising...
...said the unusual mid-year appointment stems from the school's "targeted opportunitites" program, in which it seeks departing government employees qualified for K-School posts. "This is a school of government, so we keep our eyes especially peeled every four years for practitioners," Carnesale said...
...federal security officers looked on calmly, demonstrators yesterday afternoon built a small barricade of pine trees on the steps of the Central Square post office to protest the second day of the renewed draft registration program...
Feldstein's work has included a con- troversial study of the U.S. social security system sharply critical of the government's retirement program, which he says has hurt the economy by depleting funds that could be used for investment...