Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program for state and local executives is one of three summer programs providing government administrators with practical training in effective government management...
Challenged on his anti-inflation program, Carter took the offensive. The results, he claimed, were "far exceeding our expectations." The prime rate, he said, was falling a point a week, and mortgage rates were headed toward 13%. "My prediction to you is that in the summer we will see substantial reductions to a significant degree in the inflation rate." He added, however: "We're going to have a recession on our hands, no doubt about it ... It's not going to be an easy three or four months...
...broadcast date, May 12, approached, PBS came under public relations pressure to do the same, although much of the pleading seemed pro forma, recognizing that the First Amendment would make any real effort to censor the program not only impossible but counterproductive-a fact of life about U.S. freedom of expression that even the Saudis acknowledged. Exxon, which spends $5 million a year on public TV and is also one of the four U.S. partners in the Ara, bian American Oil Co., issued a statement that it would be "extremely unfortunate" if the show were to hurt U.S.-Saudi relations...
...adult volunteers joined in planting trees and shrubs to turn empty lots into picturesque pocket parks. In Rome, volunteers cleaned up roadside ditches and trash-filled yards-and transformed a riverfront hangout for drunks and derelicts into a park that now attracts joggers and cyclists. Macon undertook a similar program, spending several million dollars to upgrade its sanitation department and establish a recycling center...
...equalize the cost of crude to all oil refiners. Firms buying cheap domestic oil are taxed a certain amount for being "entitled" to acquire inexpensive crude. That money is then given back to refiners who import expensive OPEC oil and to refiners who use expensive uncontrolled domestic oil. The program, in effect, subsidizes imported oil at a time when official Government policy is to discourage imports. Though North Slope oil is domestic, the cost of building and operating the Alaska pipeline makes the crude relatively expensive to transport, so the Government treated it as something between domestic and foreign...