Word: programing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Many investors showed little faith in the new monetary program -- or in the latest economic plan as a whole. For fear of panic selling, the country's stock market remained closed all last week...
...housing market. The median price of homes in the New York City area fell from $190,000 in the third quarter of 1988 to $182,600 in the same period last year. In Connecticut so many condominiums are on the block that the state is setting up a program to acquire 500 units at bargain prices and rent or sell them to low- and moderate-income families...
Details of the agreement were kept secret, but it is believed to contain a promise of continued health benefits for Pittston's 130,000 retired workers and a profit-sharing program for current employees. Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole helped satisfy the coal company's health-coverage concerns by appointing a commission to examine the mining industry's difficulty in paying what it says is the increasingly high cost of insurance premiums...
...library's community-service role is also being redefined. For latchkey kids, the Seattle Public Library runs an after-school program complete with tutors who help with homework. San Francisco, with its multilingual population, offers a computerized card catalog in Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Vietnamese. Some libraries provide boxes of discount coupons for grocery shoppers and one-day passes to museums; a branch in Chicago even lends ladders and household tools...
...while she was ubiquitous on the TV-radio "chat show" circuit, bright and quippy for Call My Bluff, articulate and opinionated on the weighty Question Time. Last month Americans tuned to a highbrow quiz program on National Public Radio could hear Lady Antonia deftly identify an arcane quotation: "It's Milton -- Lycidas...