Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robot Revolution" [Dec. 8] graphically illustrates a couple of phenomenal achievements-microcomputers and computer imaging-that came out of the space program. Americans who have been grumbling for years that the only thing we got out of the space program was a bunch of rocks should have their calculators repossessed...
...State. They also named Raymond James Donovan, 50, a New Jersey construction executive as Reagan's nominee for Secretary of Labor. In addition, they were preparing a crash economic plan that Reagan is considering submitting to Congress within three weeks of his Inauguration; at a minimum, the program will put a freeze on federal hiring and cut spending sharply...
Nixon later told Watergate investigators: "I authorized the entire program." For his services, Haig was jumped over 250 senior officers to become a four-star general...
...even trees. The pastoral people subsist on beans, maize, goats and a few dairy cattle. A drought last summer was so severe that it took $9.28 million in emergency aid from Pretoria to avert mass starvation. Though the territory is already densely populated, the government, under a "resettlement" program, sends in truckloads of unwanted blacks from urban areas. Once in Ciskei, many of the new arrivals live in stark tent towns with no schools, shops or running water...
Already, thousands of people in the parched northeastern region of Karamoja have starved to death. Says Melissa Wells, head of the U.N. development program in Uganda: "Famine is looming in West Nile as well." There are severe food shortages even in Kampala, where the average wage is only $67 a month. A bunch of bananas, a staple, sells for $27. Beer is $20 a bottle...