Word: programming
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Democrats may be able to do better in remounting a campaign against the anti-ballistic-missile program, which Nixon now wants to expand. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield opened fire last week by charging that it will cost "well beyond $50 billion" and asking: "Where the hell is it going to end?" Former Ambassador to Moscow George F. Kennan warned that ABM expansion could imperil progress in arms-limitation talks with the Soviet Union and touch off an arms race at "enormous expense and danger...
...program began peacefully enough last fall, when many of Riverside's 180 black and 5,180 white students enrolled in the six courses offered. The trouble began in the middle of the fall quarter after leadership of the Black Students Union changed hands. The new leaders asked Hinderaker for $100,000 with which to recruit 450 new black students to be admitted next September at the sole discretion of the B.S.U. Pressed for an immediate yes or no answer, the chancellor demurred...
...that offer no immediate, practical payoffs. This is generally called "basic research," a favorite target of administrators and legislators with little patience and less vision. Out of apparently aimless inquiries have come antibiotics and transistors, vaccines and computers, transplants and spaceships. Government budget makers who try to judge a program's worth by the crude criterion "How soon will it pay off?" are bound to be wrong much of the time...
lonesco is eloquent in his own defense, asserting in a program note that while Camus went to the plague to give moral and even political meaning to the absurd, he himself has the diametrical aim of taking meaning away. "Death is the ultimate threat . . . but in fact even those who think they know this, know it not." The Triumph of Death is a gaudy, funny feast of cynicism and imagery. It is unforgettable, but it is oddly without consequence. At its prodding, terror, mortal terror, twitches and rolls over but will not wake...
...companies in the best position to cope with a slowdown are those that were as cost-conscious during prosperous years as they are in the lean. One of the best cost-analysis programs is that of Continental Can Co., which in 1963 began setting annual goals of "method improvement." For example, instead of producing cans at one central plant and shipping them to customers-"moving a lot of air around the country," as one executive says-the company located its sheet-steel processing plants near the steel mills. Then it shipped the sheet, cut to size and printed with...