Word: programing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Seeking a major project that would involve manned flight and thus more easily elicit the support of Congress ("No bucks without Buck Rogers," quip congressional aides), the agency opted for the Space Transportation System, the shuttle program. Lobbying the White House, the Defense Department and Congress intensively, NASA portrayed the shuttle as all things to all people. The winged craft would be reusable and thus economical, a safe, reliable space truck with many different roles. In as many as 60 flights a year, it would loft or capture satellites and patrol the skies for the military. Furthermore, NASA assured...
...extensively redesigned and simplified. An independent study had found that some 3,800 hours of spacewalking would be required annually merely to maintain the proposed station -- a figure drastically higher than the 130 hours NASA had estimated and far beyond the capacity of the current U.S. space program...
...there was pressure to hire women, and blue-chip firms recruited aggressively on campus. "It really turned me off," says Burns, who backs several feminist causes but can compete very nicely on her own. Instead she chose Bloomingdale's state-of-the-art executive-training program and burned up the syllabus. "I worked 10 hours a day, seven days a week," she says, "but it was exhilarating...
While economists believe Collor's program is well reasoned, it has angered Big Business, alienated much of the middle class and invited the risk of a major recession. -- Old demons vs. new democracy could re-Balkanize Yugoslavia...
...unusual program in North Carolina propels young blacks toward college by involving parents and administering large doses of sustained attention...