Word: programing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...last week's breakdown showed, it is possible for all the modules to go crazy at once. Software, always the skittish part of any system, can also be made more dependable by imposing the kind of discipline on programmers that engineering standards impose on, say, bridge designers. A program like AT&T's faulty switching system, however, which can contain a million lines of code, is more complex than any bridge. "Standards have not been developed," says Donn Parker, a senior management consultant at SRI International. "Software is not predictable...
There are better ways to advance our society than to excuse criminal behavior. The N.R.A. initiated the first hunter-safety program, which has trained millions of young hunters. We are the shooting sports' leading safety organization, with more than 26,000 certified instructors training 750,000 students and trainees last year alone. Through 1989 there were 9,818 N.R.A.-certified law-enforcement instructors teaching marksmanship to thousands of peace officers...
...seal is the focus of an ambitious new nutrition-education effort by the A.H.A. But instead of winning universal plaudits for the program, the organization finds itself under fire from trade and consumer groups and even federal agencies, which charge that the project may add to shoppers' confusion. Under the plan, called HeartGuide, food manufacturers submit their products to be analyzed for cholesterol, salt, and total- and saturated-fat content. Items that meet the A.H.A.'s criteria are allowed to use the seal on labels and in advertisements. The imprimatur is currently limited to four categories -- margarines and spreads, canned...
...submitted its line of frozen vegetables as an image booster. "Frozen vegetables are the Rodney Dangerfield of the vegetable category," observes C& W President Gary Spakosky. "The seal will help frozen vegetables as opposed to fresh ones, which will not have the seal." The A.H.A. predicts that the program will stimulate introduction of more healthful products. One manufacturer eager to participate reformulated its product before entering it for testing...
...Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration fear that the A.H.A. seal may foster simplistic notions about foods and imply some therapeutic benefit from specific brands. The USDA has banned use of the seal on meat products, including frozen dinners and entrees. "The program would have set up the idea of good foods and bad foods, and there is no scientific support for that," says Lester Crawford of the USDA. "There are good diets and bad diets...