Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...austerity program immediately released about $300 million in loans and grants from the West that had been held up until Turkey gave proof of its fiscal responsibility. The unanswered question is whether Demirel's measures will really help in the long run. OPEC price hikes will soon add around $100 million more to the country's monthly fuel bill of $150 million. State-run factories will be forced to choose between raising prices sky high or laying off thousands of workers-at a time when unemployment is already running at 20%. The discontent of the jobless can only...
...immediate fallout of Demirel's program was an across-the-board rise in prices The cost of gasoline and other petroleum products shot up by 50% to 100%, bank interest rates by 22%. "It is true that the new measures will produce higher prices and therefore hardships," said one government economist, "but inflation was doing that anyway, so the situation has changed little for the genera public." In truth, Demirel had to do something-anything-to straighten out the economy. Inflation was approaching 100%, foreign exchange reserves have fallen below $500 million, and the country had virtually no credit...
Carter's program draws blasts from both Democrats and Republicans...
...digits and unemployment would be growing. But for all the President's candor, the policy he outlined in his message and the new budget that preceded it were getting blasts last week even from Democrats. Said Arthur Okun, chief economic adviser to President Lyndon Johnson: "This is a program for muddling through an election year. It does not make hard choices...
...late-night news program on Iran still gets high ratings. And Walter Cronkite has taken to signing off on the CBS Evening News: "And that's the way it is, the 86th [or 96th] day of captivity for those 50 American hostages in Iran." Cronkite's gesture is well meant, but network anchormen don't usually, and shouldn't, inject patriotic reminders into news coverage. In fact, when John Connally argued in a 1977 speech in Houston that the press has a duty to express "a candid bias" for the preservation of the free enterprise system...