Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unanimous, 41-page opinion, the court said that the exclusion of women from the program amounted to unfair discrimination against men, in violation of the equal-protection provision of the Fifth Amendment. There was no indication, said the judges, that national objectives required females to be exempted from registration and males alone to sign up. While the court did not deal with the question of whether women should actually be drafted or assigned to combat, it did note that there were already 150,000 female volunteers who "do serve a useful role in the military...
...assured the Commons that the Trident system was the "most cost-effective" successor to Polaris. The total program is estimated at $11.8 billion over 15 years-82.5 billion for the U.S. missiles, the remainder for four or possibly five new submarines and the warheads, all to be built in Britain. The U.S., it is understood, is offering special terms: part of the Tridents' expense will be offset by a U.S. purchase of British Rapier surface-to-air missiles at a cost of $370 million to guard American airbases in Britain...
...American-led boycott, but insists that he is "totally committed" to having the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. For his part, Killanin was a good deal more acerbic about President Carter's campaign to trip up the Moscow Games. Also foolish. He maintained that if the program had included football and baseball, the Americans would have participated...
...concluded that there was no conspiracy last year by the oil companies to create shortages and drive up prices. The Justice study determined that the service-station lines were due more than anything else to the Federal Government's allocation system, which rationed scarce gasoline among dealers. The program was a bureaucratic nightmare that gave too much gas to some stations and too little to others...
...with a board that is too long. Thus the black thumb rule at most home-repair centers: $5 worth of advice with every $1 in sales. Last winter Boston's public television station WGBH broadcast a 13-week series on home renovation titled This Old House. The program drew some of the highest ratings in the station's history, and a new version will be put on nationwide this fall...