Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mugabe's top priorities is the purchase of underutilized land for the establishment of collective farms and redistribution to black peasants. He will probably begin, ironically, by dusting off an agricultural plan developed for the short-lived interim government headed by Bishop Abel Muzorewa. That program, which involved some 11 million acres of undeveloped or abandoned white farm land, would cost $165 million. The biracial Muzorewa regime never found financial backing for the resettlement scheme, a failing that contributed to its crushing electoral defeat last month. But Mugabe's government has already sought pledges of substantial aid from...
Fearful of Soviet incursions across the border, Pakistan is trying to feed and house the refugees, but denies arming or training the rebels. British officials are preparing a proposal for a joint program of aid by the European Community, the U.S. and the United Nations. London fears that the Islamabad government might begin ordering the refugees back across the border and forbid the rebels to regroup and pick up new arms shipments in Pakistan...
...skull provides a firm surface for their work. To draw a blood sample, the doctor inserts a needle through the tube and punctures one of the fetal blood vessels lying on the surface of the placenta. Says Dr. Mitchell Golbus, a fetoscopy expert and director of the prenatal detection program at the University of California at San Francisco: "It has to be done with a great deal of care and skill because we want the pregnancy to continue unharmed if the test comes back normal...
...most of the war was not even enclosed by a fence. Prisoners ate as well as guards, and the Japanese carefully protected Red Cross shipments from the wiles of looters and grafters. With approval of their captors, some 500 inmates organized the camp, setting up an adult education program that offered lessons in nine languages including Japanese-taught, of course, by guards. The Americans mixed easily with their captors and were even allowed to own knives and bows and arrows...
...time of the accident last year, the town had neither the instruments to monitor radiation levels nor a plan for moving its inhabitants out of danger. Since then, the town has installed radiation detectors on the roof of the borough hall and put together an 80-page program that provides for the evacuation of the town by road, rail, river and even, if it becomes necessary, snowmobile. Said Mayor Reid: "We can empty the town completely in 24 hours. All the folks out at T.M.I. have to do is keep the lid on for that long...