Word: programing
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...interest rates until a safe number of people were unemployed.) To send those who are counted among that four percent to private charities is to treat them as beggars rather than citizens. We may not need a complete cradle-to-grave welfare state, but we do need social programs to be motivated by something other than noblesse oblige. As author Mickey Kaus noted in a New York Times commentary earlier this year, the Medicare program is not charity, and neither is the minimum wage...
...mission parallels that of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. This large research center at the Law School, recognized by the University in 1983, publishes journals, sponsors training and symposia and creates teaching material--all about mediation and solving disputes...
...Hurricane Floyd turns more than 2 million Americans into refugees and killer mosquitoes patrol the New York skies, we don?t need the U.N. to tell us something is seriously wrong with the environment. But the Geo2000 report released Wednesday by the U.N. Environmental Program has some bad news for anyone who believes they?re saving the planet simply by recycling their trash and voting for politicians who get dewy-eyed about nature: Much of the damage to the planet is irreversible; we?re under increasing threats of flooding, plagues, drought and famine; and ? the hardest part...
...unveiled their self-imposed makeover on Wednesday. United Airlines will wheel out "Mobile Chariot" workstations during flight delays to help stranded passengers with rebooking, and will deploy 600 hand-held baggage scanners at its busiest airports to help find rerouted luggage. Continental promises a top-to-bottom "Customer First" program aimed at improving its communication with passengers. And that?s just to name a couple ?- the Air Transport Association, the airlines' umbrella group, promises to have an entire "Customer Service Commitment" plan in place by December 15, despite congressional complaints that most of the promises are just a warmed-over...
...products. Despite Eisner?s assurances, Arab League officials are still demanding the right to inspect the "Millennium Village" before its opening to ensure that Islamic and Christian claims on Jerusalem are respected. And the site?s producers are left with the headache of creating an entertainment and education program that reconciles competing claims on the city?s identity. But hey, they don?t call it the Magic Kingdom for nothing...