Word: programming
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...recent years, new and startling insights into Alzheimer's have started to pour out of university, government and corporate laboratories. And thanks to an influx of interest and research dollars, the pace of discovery is accelerating. Exclaims Marcelle Morrison-Bogorad, who heads the Neuroscience and Neuropsychology of Aging Program at the National Institutes of Health: "An awful lot of scientists are following an awful lot of leads, and the leads are tantalizing...
...participation in the single European currency and tied its destiny to the 15-member European Union. Jospin then began a steady sell-off of state companies, a move that reassured the business community and international investors. Most important, and most controversial, were the 35-hour workweek and a program that offered state-subsidized jobs to 350,000 young people. These measures had a psychological function: to treat collective depression. They worked...
Hasty: It can be difficult getting through the maze, but over the years I got good results out of the SBA. It helped us diversify. Up until 1990, the defense industry accounted for 95% of our business. Then the SBA came out with a program that helped defense contractors like mine move into the private sector by providing low-interest loans...
...close to filling demand. As a result, wages are inflating, and we're going overseas to find talent. We need to create incentives to retrain the existing low-skilled work force and entice students to pursue education in these fields. That might mean introducing a more aggressive student-loan program or creating co-ops with companies to guarantee summer jobs to help students pay for loans...
Cooper: Sometimes, but it also supports us as well. My company wouldn't be here today if I didn't get grants from an SBA [Small Business Administration] program called the Small Business Innovation Research program. It helped me pay for R. and D. to build a prototype. I can certainly tell you from personal experience that a little bit of money can make a huge difference early in a company's history. And similarly, we had some leverage in an investment round from a State of Illinois venture-capital fund. These programs are invaluable...