Word: programing
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CHILD CARE. Republicans prefer a child-care program that would work through tax incentives and grants to states. Democrats favor creating a new federal bureaucracy and federal regulations...
Mandela and Tambo helped form the Youth League in 1944, and three years later drew up a program of action calling for strikes, boycotts and acts of civil disobedience. In 1955 they supported the Freedom Charter, an economic credo many considered to be socialist. But Mandela abandoned peaceful methods after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, in which police killed 69 black protesters. When Tambo left to establish a headquarters in exile, Mandela stayed behind to set up the A.N.C.'s underground military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) and launch a campaign of sabotage. After 17 months...
...last week to watch a slim red-and- silver rocket roar off the pad at the Kagoshima Space Center near Uchinoura, some 940 km (598 miles) southwest of Tokyo. But despite the minimal press coverage and lack of hoopla, the event was a major milestone for Japan's space program. The launch sent the unmanned Muses-A probe on its way to the moon, the first lunar mission since the Soviets' Luna 24 in 1976. Muses-A is expected to come within 16,000 km (10,000 miles) of the target in mid-March. It will then release a smaller...
Japan's progress is all the more impressive considering the obstacles its program has faced over the years. The U.S. and the Soviet Union originally used military-rocket technology to get a head start on scientific launches. But Japan's constitutional curbs on military activity forced its rocket scientists to start from scratch, and tight government budgets have not helped. In the current fiscal year, for example, Japan has allocated some $1.07 billion for space, about 10% of the U.S. figure. And launches are limited to only 90 days a year, half in winter and half in summer, because tuna...
...Institute of Space and Astronautical Science. ISAS focuses on academic scientific research, like the Muses-A mission, while NASDA's main business is to launch satellites for more practical uses, such as weather observation and communications. Combining these agencies and eliminating overlapping functions would make for a more efficient program...