Word: programing
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...then synthesizing its advice is a favorite Carter assault on a problem, and it exemplifies an inclination to manage rather than to govern. He also has a tendency to mistake the delineation of solutions to a problem for the solution itself. That happened when he announced his first energy program in early 1977. Carter called it the "moral equivalent of war," and he was right, but then he stepped away. Having announced a necessary program, he seemed to believe it would move along automatically. He failed to recognize the importance of pushing and negotiating with Congress and selling the idea...
...arouses no strong feelings of loyalty, Carter has found himself at the mercy of events with little support on Capitol Hill or in the country. He may lapse into demagoguery on the campaign trail, zapping Reagan, but he abhors strident oratory when trying to sell a program, and his soft-sell approach undermines his effect as a leader...
Carter, of course, does have a record of some accomplishment to show for his years in office, a record he feels keenly is not sufficiently appreciated. The President is most proud of the energy program. While it is far from perfect, took him three years to put into effect and is largely a Senate product, it nonetheless is a start toward resolving what is likely to be the most critical issue facing the industrialized West during the rest of the century. The nation laughed at the moral equivalent of war, and Jimmy Cardigan quickly abandoned that unpopular rubric in late...
...Army could not engage in a major tank war for more than eight weeks without either risking defeat or having to resort to tactical nuclear weapons-a perilous decision that could result in an all-out nuclear exchange. Says Thomas A. Callaghan, director of the Allied Interdependence program at the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies: "That is too high a price to pay to retrieve a military disaster that might have been avoided by strong conventional forces...
That little joke is currently making the rounds at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. But the troubling fact is that U.S. officials have little to smile about when they look at the burgeoning Soviet space program. The faltering U.S. effort has been plagued by repeated delays of the space shuttle (now scheduled for launch no earlier than next March), while the Soviets have been forging steadily onward, setting the stage for permanent occupation of space...