Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...together on a two-headed leadership that runs Uruguay with tough-minded efficiency. They serve on the nine-man Council of Government, whose rotating chairman is Uruguay's equivalent to President. Nardone, the current chairman, and Haedo, who takes over March 1, together pushed through a successful program to save the country from spiraling inflation. To avoid the feast-or-famine trade cycles associated with wool, traditionally Uruguay's No. 1 export, Nardone and Haedo began by modernizing cattle ranching and saw 1960 meat exports more than double the 1959 total. Next they aimed at crippling strikes...
...with General Electric Co. the world's first privately financed reactor at Vallecitos, Calif, where P.G. & E. scientists developed the new methods for building reactors which they are trying out in the Humboldt Bay plant. But the pace must become even faster. Chief architect of the current expansion program is Norman Sutherland, who took over as president in 1955 when James B. Black, who had guided the company's growth since 1935, moved up to board chairman. Sutherland's goal: to double P.G. & E.'s power capacity...
...nonfarm houses have climbed 78% in seven years since 1952. Reason: the price rise of real estate has been slowing, making it harder for a debt-ridden householder to sell out and cover his mortgage arrears. CIGARETTE IMPORT ban lifted by the Japanese as part of their trade liberalization program with the U.S. will bring nearly $3,000,000 in sales to U.S. cigarette makers this year. First order of U.S. cigarettes, $950,000 worth of various brands, sold out in three days despite high prices -36? per pack for regulars, 41? for kings and filters...
Montgomery Ward then began an expansion program that used up Avery's hoard. Last August, Avery could draw a measure of quiet satisfaction from the fact that Ward's new free-spending management, faced with six-month earnings of $5,000,000 v. $10 million the first half of 1959, had to halve Ward's quarterly dividend. Last week, just a few days be- fore his 87th birthday, Sewell Avery died of a cerebral hemorrhage...
...informal study of the effectiveness of the reading program has shown that its helpfulness is not always correlated with an increase in reading speed. The course now aims mainly at showing students how to read for studies, Wideman stated...