Word: programing
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Halbouty's task force wrote a report on energy that was sent to Reagan the day after the election. It charged that the Carter energy program was designed to impede production and curtail consumption. Said the report: "Instead of unleashing the resources of a wealthy nation, we have, in the name of saving energy for some unspecified future time, tucked energy away like a rare bottle of wine." The Halbouty study contended that the U.S. can produce as much oil and gas in the future as it has in its entire history. The report claimed that there is more...
Reagan has not yet decided on many key details of his energy program, including how to restructure the Department of Energy and whether to cut back the $20 billion synfuel development program. When he does, he will find a fairly cooperative Congress eager to study his proposals. The Republican-dominated Senate is likely to revise some pollution regulations and to open up more public lands to coal mining and oil exploration. Republicans also have an ideological majority in the House, where 40 Southern Democrats often vote with them on energy issues. Nonetheless, a few of the more controversial aspects...
While the U.S. remains traumatized by the Three Mile Island incident, other industrialized nations are moving rapidly in the field of nuclear power. The most aggressive program now belongs to France, which plans to draw 75% of its electricity from the atom by 1990. In 1983 France will complete work on its massive 1,200-megawatt Super Phenix, the country's second fast-breeder reactor. France also leads in developing types of nuclear-waste disposal technology...
...study, sponsored in part by the Carnegie Corp. of New York, kept tabs on disadvantaged children who were three and four between 1962 and 1966. Half of the children were placed in a special preschool program. Youngsters planned what they were going to do each morning, did it, and later reviewed what they had done with a teacher...
...cost of the preschool program was $5,984 a child for two years. Weikart and Schweinhart estimate, though, that eventual dollar savings for society could be considerable, not only because of less remedial instruction in school, but because of decreased expenditures for law enforcement and social welfare...