Word: programming
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...England has already achieved the reindustrialization that is the goal of the program President Carter will announce this week. In place of its once mighty, but now outmoded, industries, the region has built a new economic base, primarily on high-technology companies. Manufacturers of everything from medical equipment to minicomputers have been lured to the area by its supply of skilled labor and a bouillabaisse of local and state investment incentives. "There's a spirit of industriousness here," says Richard Berube, of Digital Equipment Corp., which employs 25,000 workers in Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. "There...
...election-year program of revitalized competition and tax cuts...
Jimmy Carter has been under heavy pressure to propose an economic program because the dismal state of business appears to be one of his Administration's greatest weaknesses as the presidential campaign opens. But Carter received a bit of unexpected, though illusory, economic news last week: the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that consumer prices did not increase in July. That was the first month that the cost of living had not risen in more than 13 years. But experts quickly admitted that this was a statistical fluke. The cost of food, automobiles and medical care continued to soar...
...school with the regular Sunday service: children sit with their parents, then depart during the sermon for 45 minutes of instruction. They return for the offertory, prayer of consecration and Communion. "Being included," Koch insists, "teaches the children more than 10,000 Sunday school lessons could." Koch's program, like the practice of the thriving Baptist Sunday schools, seems to bear out one fact: lesson plans, visual aids, outings are all well and good, but Sunday schools cannot flourish if parents do not go to church with their children. Worship has to be a family experience...
...defensive, forcing a retreat to Yan Dang Mountain. The forces of yellow (the empire) and blue (the peasants) clash in a kaleidoscope of acrobatic encounters, until finally the rebels vault over the defending walls and capture the stronghold. The athletic skills displayed in this and other parts of the program could win gold medals in a dozen Olympics, and the brilliantly garbed Chinese players have discovered what may be a new art form - the somersault. They do fast flip-flops and they do slow ones; they can do almost any thing with their bodies, defying both gravity and anatomy...