Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Welle in Russian and other languages of the U.S.S.R. provide generally reliable reporting and less ideological filler about events inside the Soviet Union than The Beacon, the nationwide hourly news program beamed from Moscow. The Western radio stations also offer Soviet listeners tantalizing glimpses of capitalist life through feature stories and interviews, while playing the siren song of rock and folk music, which are immensely popular among Soviet youth...
Soviet energy policy has been plagued by bureaucratic infighting and indecisiveness. No fewer than 15 different government ministries are involved in energy policy. Indeed, it was not until late 1977 that the Communist Party authorized an all-out program for oil exploration and development, necessitating a rush of orders for U.S. equipment...
...hands over jurisdictional problems. Last month the attorney general for the state of California sued, among others, the mayor of Los Angeles, the entire city council, the chief of police and the board of trustees of the Los Angeles Unified School District, demanding that authorities put together some coordinated program to punish the criminals and cut down on violence and theft...
...York City high school. Six years later, seeking a change, he spent a year at a suburban school, but was bored. "That's when I learned how much I identified with the deprived kids in Manhattan." Back in the city, Harold helped launch a special reading program. "We were all weary of failure in trying to teach academic subjects to high school kids who read on a fifth-grade level," he says. "We saw reading as the key by which these kids could gain success." For six years, Harold's group faced constant opposition from the school...
...While similar synthetic fuels helped run Hitler's armies during World War II, the procedure has not been widely used because, until recently, petroleum was much cheaper. The South Africans have developed the most advanced facilities in the world for making synthetic fuels. Under the Carter national energy program now being completed in Congress, the U.S. would build ten similar plants at a cost of $20 billion...