Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Liberal Democrats have tried twice, with President Carter's backing, to restore $500 million in aid to cities, but they have been beaten both times. Meanwhile, Giaimo has won the agreement of House Republicans, who usually vote en masse against any Democratic budget proposals, to back his program-eventually. What the Senate may do is uncertain; its Budget Committee has only begun to draft spending and revenue proposals...
Bunker started in the 1950s with an oil-drilling program in Pakistan that yielded nothing but dry holes, more than $11 million worth. Undaunted, he sank $250 million into exploration ventures in the Middle East and North Africa. In 1961 he discovered the Sarir field in Libya, one of the biggest single oil finds ever. But in 1973 Libya nationalized his holdings, depriving Hunt of potential future profits that could have run into the billions. For a while, one biographer believes, he was not even a billionaire...
...optimistic, compared with a high of 47% early in the Carter Administration. Concern about inflation has surged; 74% of the 1,221 people interviewed consider it to be the country's No. 1 problem, up from 50% in January. Few voters believe that Carter's "new economic program" will stem further price rises. In addition, more than half of the people polled now think that Carter has been "too soft" in dealing with Iran's holding of the American hostages in Tehran, and only 17% believe that his performance on the Afghanistan crisis has increased U.S. prestige...
Three years ago, when Jimmy Carter presented to Congress an energy program that he termed "the moral equivalent of war," he began learning the consequences of one odd fact: the House of Representatives has no energy committee. Rather it has 83 committees and subcommittees that claim jurisdiction over parts of energy policy. One year ago, when Congress was still struggling to get some kind of energy bill passed, two rival House committees produced two rival plans. Nobody could work out a compromise...
...nation's largest newspaper, editorialized: "The people are victims of overkill-let us vote and be done with it." So they did. When the 4.7 million ballots were counted, the pronukes had a clear majority: 58% voted yes, favoring completion of the country's half-finished nuclear program; only 39% voted for a proposal to abandon the country's reactor program...