Word: programing
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...England has already achieved the reindustrialization that is the goal of the program President Carter will announce this week. In place of its once mighty, but now outmoded, industries, the region has built a new economic base, primarily on high-technology companies. Manufacturers of everything from medical equipment to minicomputers have been lured to the area by its supply of skilled labor and a bouillabaisse of local and state investment incentives. "There's a spirit of industriousness here," says Richard Berube, of Digital Equipment Corp., which employs 25,000 workers in Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. "There...
...election-year program of revitalized competition and tax cuts...
Jimmy Carter has been under heavy pressure to propose an economic program because the dismal state of business appears to be one of his Administration's greatest weaknesses as the presidential campaign opens. But Carter received a bit of unexpected, though illusory, economic news last week: the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that consumer prices did not increase in July. That was the first month that the cost of living had not risen in more than 13 years. But experts quickly admitted that this was a statistical fluke. The cost of food, automobiles and medical care continued to soar...
While the President put the final touches on his program, some rebellious Senators moved forward with their own plans. Led by Louisiana's Russell Long, the Senate Finance Committee last week approved a $39 billion tax cut. Under the Constitution, all tax legislation must originate in the House, but the adept Senators attached the tax cut to a minor House-passed bill that would allow the Foundry United Methodist Church of Washington, D.C., to import six bells duty free...
...defensive, forcing a retreat to Yan Dang Mountain. The forces of yellow (the empire) and blue (the peasants) clash in a kaleidoscope of acrobatic encounters, until finally the rebels vault over the defending walls and capture the stronghold. The athletic skills displayed in this and other parts of the program could win gold medals in a dozen Olympics, and the brilliantly garbed Chinese players have discovered what may be a new art form - the somersault. They do fast flip-flops and they do slow ones; they can do almost any thing with their bodies, defying both gravity and anatomy...