Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rivlin said last night she was attracted to Radcliffe by its graduate program in economics, adding, "I have a nice feeling about Radcliffe...
Rivlin, an economist and the first director of the newly created Congressional Budget Office, joined the Brookings Institute in 1957 as a research fellow and later became a senior fellow. In 1966 she became deputy assistant secretary for program analysis in the Department of Health Education and Welfare, a position that she held until former President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed her assistant secretary for planning and evaluation...
Some, like Dorothy Harding Trower '30, who has spend more than 30 years doing a radio program on Brockton's WBET, became quite adept at straddling career and family. "A lot of people thought it was demeaning for me to go on the air. Somehow, though, I didn't give a shoot," Trower says, adding, "Now it's all different. Nobody's looking askance on women for pursuing careers today...
...Deal, which most members of the Class of '30 alternately describe as 'a handout" and "a giveaway program" helped codify many of their ideas about the economy. "It's not only Carter but the whole socialist giveaway, welfare state, with its endless social programs and wasteful spending, begun under Roosevelt and propagandized by those like J.K. Galbraith and other college professors who accept good salaries and hope for tenure and long vacations, as well as sabbatical leaves, and yet so hypocritically criticize capitalism that provides this largesse for them," Gordon B. Worcester writes to his class. But Elliot, a lobbyist...
...most careful preparations would offer no absolute guarantee against the workings of Murphy's Law (what can go wrong, will). But, they say, the risks are clearly calculable and precautions can be taken. Their enthusiasm is apparently shared in Washington. Last week, as part of a joint program with the Department of Energy, NASA awarded a $296,000 contract to the Boeing Co. Its purpose: to start up a four-year study on the possibility of exercising the space option for ridding the earth of nuclear wastes...