Word: programing
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...Administration's position in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) is, in one key respect, still mired in the past. It is designed to preserve, in its redundant entirety, Ronald Reagan's so-called strategic modernization program. "Modernization" is a euphemism for breeding a whole aviary of brand-new weapon systems: not one but two long-range bombers (the B- 1 and B-2 "Stealth"), not one but two ICBMs (the ten-warhead MX and the Midgetman), not one but two species of cruise missiles (air launched and sea launched), plus a submarine missile. The cost: nearly $100 billion over...
...cautious director, has said that the Soviet Union will be "unable, at least in this decade, to threaten U.S. subs in the open ocean." But no new Tridents are necessary for the remainder of the '90s, and the U.S. should immediately kill the rest of the procurement program. Saving: $1.4 billion...
Making matters worse, the Defense Department is committed to spending $124 billion in the next decade for hardware such as the Navy's pricey ($60 billion for the program) A-12 attack aircraft, and the LHX helicopter, a beleaguered program that threatens to gobble up $42 billion over the next five years. Most of this money is not even anticipated in the current budget. As such programs are scratched or stretched out, the Pentagon faces enormous cancellation fees to contractors. Some of these weapons have already consumed millions of dollars in research and development...
...Year, we received scores of letters from readers asking what we as a company were doing for the environment. The answer is that after studying alternatives and talking with the Council on the Environment of New York City, the Time Inc. Magazine Co. has started its own recycling program for bottles, cans and paper. Throughout the Time & Life Building in New York City, staff members are chipping in to help make our environment a cleaner, more enjoyable place...
...most inspiring features of the program is that individuals are volunteering their labor. From coordinator Eileen Wolmer, a purchasing agent for the Time Inc. Magazine Co., to the 33 floor captains in charge of educating their colleagues about recycling, to the cleaning crews who dispose of the trash, no one is being paid extra for helping...