Word: programming
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...button telephone console, Nixon has just three direct lines?to Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Kissinger. Only four Cabinet members can count on getting through to Nixon at any time: Mitchell, of course, and Secretary of State William Rogers, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Labor Secretary George Shultz. Every program proposal is "staffed out," since Nixon dislikes to be unprepared when a visitor springs an idea on him. Haldeman supplies him with dossiers on everyone he is to see each day. In the competition for Nixon's attention, many ideas die without getting to his desk. Says Haldeman: "Not many people have...
...that brought him to power in Khartoum, had asked Nasser to join the festivities. Nemery has admitted 1,000 Soviet military advisers and economic technicians to Sudan. Several are training his pilots to fly MIG-21s. East Germany, meanwhile, provides advisers for Nemery's increasingly elaborate internal-security program...
...throat." Senanayake barely retained his own seat. His party's representation in Parliament fell from 71 to 17. With her own party holding an absolute majority and her two Communist-coalition partners winning 25 seats-highest in their histories -Mrs. Bandaranaike can carry out almost any program she might wish, including revision of the constitution...
Launched with much fanfare 18 months ago, the combined Government-business drive to hire hard-core unemployed-particularly blacks-is becoming a casualty of the economic slump. The so-called JOBS program (for Job Opportunities in the Business Sector), which was organized by the Department of Labor and by the National Alliance of Businessmen, provides federal training grants averaging $2,400 per man to companies that agree to employ and train the unskilled. A Senate Labor subcommittee has turned up evidence to prove that, while the Government aimed at enrolling 140,000 men and women in the program during...
Bumped by the Rules. Some JOBS programs have indeed done well. Raytheon has retained 99% of the people it hired, and a number of trainees rise to become secretaries and draftsmen. American Airlines, Eastern Air Lines and New York's Consolidated Edison also report successes. But Chrysler Corp., on the other hand, has canceled one of its several JOBS contracts calling for 4,450 production employees; and Chrysler's Chairman Lynn Townsend is the N.A.B. chief for the whole country. The company retained other contracts and has signed one to train 1,000 auto mechanics at its dealerships...