Word: programing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Committee members said they also hope toreinstate a two-year fellowship program at theBunting Institute for non-tenured women facultymembers. In addition, they plan to host areception for Harvard's senior women professors tofind out how they made...
...America seems willing to let the rest of its own society go by too. It pretends the tabloid atrocities on TV news shows are aberrations. It either closes its eyes to the human street litter -- the homeless, the junkies, the insane -- or blames them for not getting with the program of self-help economics. It largely ignores the ghetto, where the black underclass has built its own furious culture on the slag heap of Great Society failures. It discounts much of the young white working class, in tattered towns and trailer parks, who feel left out of bland, sitcom America...
...Democratic Senator Sam Nunn has delivered a series of speeches on "defense- budget blanks." Chairman of the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee, Nunn pointed to a "threat blank" based on a dated U.S. assessment of Soviet military power, a "strategy blank" unfilled by Pentagon planners and, most important, a "program blank" in which requests for tens of billions of dollars in new weapons are unsupported by any rationale. Deciding on the defense budget, said Nunn, is "little better than pulling a number...
...persuasively explain why the U.S. needs another expensive, as yet unproven strategic bomber at all when the Air Force already has the new B-1 bomber and the still reliable B-52. Moreover, in one of the traditional paradoxes of military procurement, slashing and stretching out the Stealth program will increase the per-plane cost from $530 million to $815 million...
...Delay production of the Advanced Tactical Fighter from 1994 to 1996, but not cut the planned 750-plane, $79 billion program. Some congressional experts think the Air Force's present F-15 interceptor could last another decade...