Word: programing
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...proposed creating free enterprise zones in decaying parts of cities. Patterned after the well-received British experiments, the plan would permit sharp tax reductions and minimal Government regulations for companies that are willing to relocate and provide jobs for the local community. It could be an ideal Republican program: a free-market approach to a pressing social problem that has resisted governmental remedies...
...Ripon Society, plans to offer a resolution to change party rules to make it easier for ethnic groups to become convention delegates and members of the R.N.C. The present process discriminates against the larger states, where ethnic voters are concentrated. Auspitz is a member of the R.N.C.'s outreach program, which makes a special appeal to minorities. Yet he complains: "The party tells these groups, 'Give us your vote, but your participation stops at the ballot...
...been warned by a White House memo that "if we cannot get auto and steel problems reasonably resolved, these issues alone will cost us Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Missouri." During a 40-minute meeting with auto executives that began at 7:05 a.m., the President announced an aid program that could add up to $1 billion for the auto industry (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
Some French military experts, including former Cabinet Minister Alexandre Sanguinetti and retired General Georges Buis, have called for the creation of a joint European nuclear defense program that would combine French know-how with West German financial resources. The obstacles to such cooperation remain almost insurmountable. The London agreements of 1954 concerning West German sovereignty and membership in NATO forever precluded the acquisition of atomic weapons by Bonn, and Moscow has made it clear that it would never tolerate a West German finger on the nuclear trigger. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week reiterated a long-standing West German promise that...
Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc., the manufacturer of Valium, as well as the sister drug Librium, says that it agreed with the FDA wording "to help ensure continuation of the appropriate use of our products." In fact, the drug maker backed a continuing medical education program under Dr. Theodore Cooper, outgoing dean of the Cornell University Medical College and former HEW Assistant Secretary for Health. The program's announced purpose was to educate doctors on the diagnosis and treatment of the consequences of stress. Critics charge, however, that it was only a subtle effort to promote continued sales of tranquilizers...