Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, up until early August, the details of the project were as shadowy as the plane was meant to be on a radar screen. All that was generally known was that the U.S. was working on some sort of radar-foiling aircraft, although aspects of the program had been quietly incorporated into the design of the operational SR-71 reconnaissance plane and the cruise missile. Then someone began leaking news on Stealth. Within five days, Aviation Week, ABC-TV and the Washington Post reported on the project. On Aug. 14, Post Reporter George C. Wilson wrote that President Carter...
...deliberately leaked "some of the most highly secret weapons information since the Manhattan Project" (which developed the atomic bomb), in order to make Carter look supervigilant on defense matters. Carter called the charge "cheap politics." He recalled, correctly, that it was his Administration that had classified the Stealth program in the first place, and claimed, very inaccurately, that the Administration had "been successful for three years in keeping the entire system secret." But he left most of the burden of replying to Brown...
...problems began, paradoxically, with a decision that was at first applauded. To avoid the unrest that had top pled his predecessor, Wladyslaw Gomulka, in 1970, recently ousted Party Chief Edward Gierek embarked on a crash program to modernize Polish industry. The first results were impressive. From 1971 to 1975 industrial output soared 70%, and real wages rose at an annual average...
...then Gierek's plan ran into a combination of bad luck and hurdles endemic in the Communist system. Recession in the West curbed appetites for Polish exports. Bad harvests forced Warsaw to buy increasing amounts of food abroad. Meanwhile, the government lost control of the development program and had to seek further loans, pushing its hard-currency indebtedness to a staggering $20 billion...
...Soviet Union has promised $690 million in goods and hard currency. President Carter has pledged $670 million in credits for U.S. grain and other foodstuffs. Western banks have arranged for new loans totaling $1 billion. These are stopgap measures. Polish economists agree that further belt tightening and a program of profound economic reform will both be necessary. One proposal: decentralization of economic decision making so as to give plant managers more responsibility. This will even include the introduction of a profit motive. Most experts also believe that the pricing system will have to be made more responsive to supply...