Word: programing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...technique is remarkably simple. First, the forger uses an optical scanner to turn a legitimate document into a digital image stored in the computer's memory. Then, using a so-called paint program, which is an electronic version of an artist's drawing kit, he alters the image to suit his purposes -- adding zeros to the dollar amount, say, or deleting the payee's name and substituting his own. Finally, the altered document is printed out on a laser printer or, for best results, on a professional typesetting machine...
...first, the people surveyed the community-health nurse with suspicion. But soon Mahon, blessed with a quick smile and caring eyes, gained converts to a program called De Madres a Madres -- from mothers to mothers. Her grass-roots scheme, hatched with a colleague from Texas Woman's University and underwritten by the March of Dimes, calls for training mothers from the barrio to reach out to the ghetto's endangered women. Texas mothers, particularly Hispanics, are among the least likely in the U.S. to receive early prenatal care. So Mahon has been arming volunteer moms with information to help them...
...news coverage." His 45-page study, in fact, was largely devoted to a review of widely used public relations and advertising practices. Nonetheless, Winsten decided to drop the recommendation for video news releases from his report, not wishing to alienate the journalists on whose goodwill much of his program's success would depend...
...stem the separatist tide, Gorbachev announced plans to press for a new treaty of the union, confirming the sovereignty of the republics. But he also promised to "radicalize" perestroika, speed up the timetable of the government economic-reform program, cut the state budget deficit, cope with the crisis in agriculture and food supplies, solve the growing refugee problem and guarantee the "stability of public order and the security of citizens" -- a tall order for any leader, much less one as beset as Gorbachev...
...Potomac River valley as the President studied the water for signs of bass running in the shallows. Within minutes he was at his destination, the Potomac Electric Power Co.'s Chalk Point generating station, a plant that produces electricity for the White House. Under Bush's proposed clean-air program, the facility would have to cut half its sulfur dioxide emissions within ten years, a $400 million undertaking. "Megabucks," acknowledged Bush. "But I am determined to clean...