Word: programing
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Carter's response to the nation's economic worries, an anti-inflation program, his fourth, focuses on credit controls and cuts in federal spending, moves in the right direction but it is widely regarded as very late and still inadequate; at best it will take a long time to work. Former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns last week told the Joint Economic Committee that the spending reductions are "minuscule" and will not reassure the public that "the era of persistent federal deficits is coming to an end." Most probably, he said, the nation will go into...
Small as it is, Carter's program will pinch consumers further before it yields its desired effects. On March 14, the President authorized the Federal Reserve Board to curb consumer credit, on the theory that heavy borrowing has fueled inflationary buying. The Fed immediately issued tough guidelines. Last week banks, department stores and other lenders began setting up rules to stay within the guidelines. Samples from Manhattan's Citibank, the second largest bank in the U.S.: no new Visa or Master Card credit cards; cash advances on existing cards to be limited to $300, vs. a previous maximum...
Making the switch in concentrations wasn't easy. "The special concentration people want to make sure your program is not too specific, nor too general," Fletcher says. He also needed written statements from faculty certifying that he could not satisfactorily "pursue his goals" in the Music and English departments...
Jamie A. Murray, a staff assistant at the Forum, said yesterday two of the Forum's programs will continue under the administration of other Radcliffe-affiliated organizations. The Schlesinger Library will handle the Gilman speaker series and the Alumni Association will coordinate the externship program, she said...
...student newspaper, the Daily Trojan, reported last month that federal work-study funds were misused in the cooperative arrangement between the debate and football teams. The Trojan said advisers to the teams forged federal documents and invented a program in which debaters tutored football players to earn work-study funds. Debaters never actually tutored the players, however...