Word: programing
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...sell Iraq practically anything -- for a price. Eventually Saddam found benefactors in the West: nations more fearful of an Iranian victory than of him. France supplied an estimated $12 billion worth of military hardware between 1981 and 1988. Iraq was able to buy sophisticated technology for its missile- development program from willing, or gullible, firms in Britain, Italy, Germany and the U.S. To finance those purchases, the cash-strapped Saddam needed a friendly banker. He found at least two: the Atlanta branch of Italy's largest bank and Uncle...
...assistance apparently did not end when the war did in 1988. Even after the potential misuse of CCC guarantees was disclosed, and despite Iraq's worsening financial condition, the Bush Administration approved an additional $500 million credit line for this year under the same CCC program. Officials argued that any previous problems involving diversion or misuse of its guarantees had been solved...
...Wyman, a former Stanford dean who favors blue jeans and cowboy boots over business suits, "is making teenagers feel good about themselves." The key to doing that, Wyman believes, is horses. "A horse is big, strong, timid and stupid," explains % Jack Huyler, 69, a retired director of the horse program. "A kid has a constant crisis until he learns that you control the horse by controlling yourself...
Horsemanship alone won't get you into Harvard, of course. To do that, the school offers a 7-to-1 student-teacher ratio and a high-powered academic program that includes four years of English, three of mathematics and foreign language, and two of science, history and fine arts. "We teach people how to think critically," says Marvin Shagam, a popular instructor who studied at Oxford and is trained in judo. "We don't coach for the SATs." The fees for all this are steep: tuition next year will be $16,000, although 44 of the school's 227 students...
...this cost-cutting era of collegiate sports, especially in financially-troubled Massachusetts, it is Harvard that is committed to maintaining its 19-team women's program. Not so at Oklahoma, which attempted to drop its women's basketball program this year before it was forced to rescind the decision because of public outcry. Not so at Rutgers and the University of Massachusetts, which dropped their women's lacrosse programs this year, sparking protest at the women's lacrosse Final Four three weeks ago in Princeton...