Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...added, however, that his strong showing in the crowded caucus might convince the Democratic State Committee to name him to one of the delegate slots reserved for students under its affirmative action program...
...Central Bank of Chile during Alessandri Frei's rule in the '60s, and for the Pinochet government's electric company in the past two years. His ties with Chile go all the way back to the '50s, when the University of Chicago, his home base, started an exchange program with Catholic University in Santiago. Arnold Harberger sincerely loves Chile...
...economic model has produced increased misery for the majority of the Chilean population. Real unemployment is estimated between 20 and 30 per cent. [The government distorts these figures by not counting as unemployed those on the Minimum Employment Program, which pays a meager $26 per month.] Inflation continues to undercut the real incomes of working people. Cuts in government support for health, housing, education and social services reduce their social wage...
...incident occurred at the height of American public outrage over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Iran's refusal to release the 50 hostages being held at the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Jimmy Carter had just announced a program of sanctions against the Soviet Union, including an embargo on shipments of grain to the U.S.S.R., and U.S. longshoremen were balking at handling any Soviet cargoes. Then, Local 160 of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) posted a notice on a bulletin board at the Kennedy tower urging members not to guide Soviet or Iranian aircraft...
...Bryn Mawr, and, like Wexler, a pillar of the liberal community. The report calls for engaging "a million or more young people in a new system of voluntary National Service designed to help meet this country's non-military needs." Though the report's conclusion calls for a "voluntary" program, it repeatedly cites the advantages of a mandatory system, and how one might work better than the voluntary program. Specifics on what these people might do are spare, but there are several mentions of laudable goals like "caring for the sick and the elderly" and "repairing our abused physical environment...