Word: programing
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Today the people who live in our cities have lower real incomes than they did twenty years ago. And as this poverty has spread, President Carter has failed again and again at putting his urban policies into action. Last Friday night the legislative centerpiece of Carter's program--a bill to double the $700 million budget of the Economic Development Administration, and permitting it to perform some of the functions of a "national development bank"--died in a congressional conference. Once again, the Administration couldn't overcome the regional concerns of numerous congressmen to rally support for a national program...
Enrollment figures indicate the success of the program--which the city adopted voluntarily, keeping in mind possible state action to correct racial imbalances. Despite predictions that some parents would pull their children out of the system rather than have them bused, the first statistics show steady enrollment...
...clear what Pinochet intends to do with his victory. Last week he outlined an ambitious program of social security reform, new housing and economic growth for the country, and he insisted to reporters that he is not interested in serving beyond the next eight years. Sources close to him say that he may want to establish an authoritarian but benevolent dictatorship rather like that of Francisco Franco's Spain, without becoming the geriatric embarrassment that Franco was in his last years...
Since the Three Mile Island accident 18 months ago, U.S. nuclear power development has been virtually shut down. Orders for new facilities, which hit a high of 41 in 1973, have dropped to zero. By comparison, France, which has Europe's most ambitious nuclear program, has 16 reactors in operation, an extra 32 under construction and 13 more in planning. The Soviet Union currently generates 10% of its electricity from nuclear sources, and the present Five-Year Plan calls for construction of ten reactors a year. Pyotr Neporozhny, the Soviet Minister of Electric Power Development and Electrification, announced...
...living matter and, decaying at a predictable rate, could be used to assign an age to dead organic archaeological and geological remains. An advocate of nuclear testing, he served on the Atomic Energy Commission from 1954 to 1959 and also headed the Eisenhower-era "Atoms for Peace" program...