Word: programing
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Goldwater's final difficulty is that he underestimates the true conservatism of the American people, the unwillingness to abandon a program once it has been around for a while and is working fairly well. About the only "welfare" program the people have found repugnant enough in practice to repeal was prohibition...
...elicited much enthusiasm from the audience; perhaps none intended to. Charles Coryell, professor of Chemistry at M.I.T., and Gov. G. Mennen Williams of Michigan seemed to provoke the audience most. But Coryell's defense of Linus Pauling was, in context, peripheral to the main topic, and Williams' six-point program for "what you can do" turned out to be largely a program for what a Democratic Administration might do. Save for his emphasis on "arms to parley," though, Williams' speech seemed to encourage the audience, to show them that there are important politicians on their side...
Most members of the audience wanted to know what they could do about disarmament. Some of the speakers presented specific suggestions--although none was close to a concrete program...
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...more directly said. Black regrets the fact that the area in which the "diplomat" could be most effective, that of policy planning, is so new and so shrouded with the misconceptions of those in authority, that more often than not the economist who tries to outline long-term programs is confined to short-term objectives. (Presumably this distrust of planning is the reason why the U.S. Congress continually refuses to extend the Mutual Security program beyond a length of one year. The many unhappy results of this policy--technicians abandoning projects for which funds were not renewed, bridges half-built...