Word: programing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...terms as mayor that followed, she was given high marks overall for having developed an envied transit system, a strong police force that reduced certain categories of crime and, later on, an elaborate anti-AIDs program. Again and again, she showed a talent for bringing warring factions together. At the time, however, she was almost constantly beset by controversy. Liberals assailed her for allowing an overblown "Manhattanization" of the downtown business district and for overemphasizing tough law enforcement. Conservatives criticized her for leaving the current administration of Art Agnos with a "shortfall" of $140 million in the 1988-89 budget...
...told his colleagues that the victims are owed "compensation and an apology." The House agreed, approving a $100 million fund to aid affected families in five Southwestern states. But even if the Senate goes along, the Justice Department has urged President Bush to veto the measure as "another entitlement program." Udall, now 70 and practicing law in Santa Fe, is writing a book on Government callousness in the atomic age. The Bush Administration may provide him with another chapter...
...Canada, Gorbachev responded that he thought he could work with Yeltsin if he was willing to cooperate. But if "he is indeed playing a political game, then we may be in for a difficult time." The next day at a press conference, Yeltsin elaborated on the details of his program of sovereignty and economic reform, thus ensuring further clashes with Gorbachev. He increased the tension another notch by meeting with Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis and promising to "cooperate fully with the Baltic republics...
...Dizzy Gillespie -- so famous for being famous they need no parenthetical explanation even in Moscow -- she had the political sense to leave her gold American Express card at home, the $1,700 Cartier diamond earrings in the jewelry box and a sweep through swank department stores off the program...
...leader of the largest of the 15 Soviet republics, Yeltsin threatens Gorbachev's economic and political plans with a proposed program of sovereignty that would reduce the country to an alliance. -- In Poland, patience must not be in short supply if economic reforms are to succeed. -- A landslide victory for Burma's opposition. -- Iraq's Saddam Hussein: dangerous madman or cunning tyrant...