Word: programing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...conservatives exacted their revenge on the last day of the plenum when the question of how to deal with wayward Lithuanian party members came up. Gorbachev struck a conciliatory tone, urging his Lithuanian comrades to suspend their decision to break away from Moscow headquarters and submit their program for the consideration of the party congress this summer. The central party ought to render assistance to Lithuanian party members who remain loyal, he said, but accept delegates from both the regular and breakaway groups to this summer's congress...
...file by wire, a taxpayer must take a completed return -- on paper or personal-computer disk -- to one of the transmitters the IRS has approved for the program. For a fee, the information is entered into the company's computer and sent to the IRS, where it goes directly into the agency's mainframes. The electronic return bypasses time-consuming steps. It does not have to be sorted at an 18-bin station called a "tingle table," numbered and coded by hand and sent to a keypunch operator who enters the data into IRS computers. Instead, the return goes immediately...
...high-tech frontiers, the speedy service has its glitches. The IRS computers are programmed to accept virtually no discrepancies. Even a simple typographical or spacing error will prompt the system to reject the form. "The return has to be almost perfect before it goes through," says Richard Butler, a Chicago accountant. Tax giant H&R Block, which has hawked its service with a high-profile advertising campaign called "Rapid Refund," says its program is going smoothly. But smaller preparing firms have found the system to be a computerized nightmare. "We're experiencing a communication problem with software, and it costs...
...Health Organization dispatched a public health team to Rumania to determine the scope of the epidemic. If infection is limited mainly to the children, a large supply of sterile needles and blood-testing kits could halt the spread almost immediately, said Dr. Jonathan Mann, head of WHO's Global Program on AIDS. But Mann is concerned that the new mobility of Eastern Europe's populations could lead to faster dissemination of the virus. Citing reports of prostitution in Rumania and heroin use in Poland, Mann called Eastern Europe "the new frontier for the AIDS epidemic...
...Former President Reagan invokes Executive privilege to avoid revealing his personal diary in John Poindexter's Iran-contra trial. -- Father Bruce Ritter, founder of the nation's best program for runaway teenagers, is forced to step aside...