Word: programing
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McManus said he found "quite a few" employees who were not trained to deal with asbestos, but added that Buildings and Grounds informed him they would redirect their asbestos training program to include all Buildings and Grounds employees...
Heymann, who is on leave from the Harvard Law School Faculty, said Mendelsohn, who initiated the government program to investigate Nazi war criminals in 1977, was being reassigned because if a "personality conflict" with the director of the Office of Special Investigations, Walter J. Rockler...
...President Carter's energy program at last began staggering through Congress, but a near disaster at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania raised legitimate questions?as well as much unnecessary hysteria?about how safe and useful nuclear power will be as a partial substitute for the imported oil that the eruption in Iran will help make ever more costly. The conclusion of a SALT II agreement with the Soviet Union?more modest in scope than many Americans had urged, but basically useful to the U.S.?led to congressional wrangling that raised doubts about whether the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty will...
...undiscriminating cultural uproar. U.S. scientists enlarged the boundaries of knowledge in nuclear physics, biophysics, particle physics, biochemistry and electrooptics, among other fields. American plant biologists continued to develop the hybrid corn that remains one of this century's most important contributions to agriculture. Although the moon program was dismantled during the '70s, the two Vikings and two Voyagers probed Mars and Jupiter; now the Voyagers are proceeding to Saturn and then to even remoter reaches...
...world oil supplies and led to the gas shortages of early summer. These in turn brought forth a surge of congressional activity on the patchwork quilt of energy bills submitted by President Carter in the spring. But then followed a textbook example of what ails Washington. The Carter energy program, refined in July, still needed work. The White House leadership was uncertain, and as the gas lines shortened, the public began sending out confusing signals about what it wanted done. The lawmakers began to hesitate and reconsider. Complained House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "The Congress blows like the wind...