Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once again, Daniel Patrick Moynihan is sounding the alarm. While other politicians talk moderately of reform, the Democratic Senator from New York wants to scrap the basic federal welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). That system, established 50 years ago to provide temporary relief for widows, was never meant to address the long-term problem of poor children in broken homes, he argues, and it certainly has proved incapable of coping with the "changed reality" of a country with 3.8 million poor, single-parent families...
...worldwide share of the market for disk drives reportedly plunged from 55% in 1980 to about 20% in 1985. The computer maker feverishly began cleaning house in 1985, not long before its financial squeeze. The company proceeded to discard some 20 businesses that were too far removed from its basic field. The biggest divestiture came last October, when Control Data sold off 80% of its Commercial Credit subsidiary, a financial-services firm, for $523.9 million...
...easiest way to get public domain software is to copy it from friends. But, for those with few software-rich friends, the Happy Hacker can provide a basic lesson in where and how to obtain free software...
...know the punch line by now. When I took my courtside seat I discovered that though I was dressed to kill, I probably couldn't pull off the crime due to my basic lack of vision...
...most basic problem is that the Administration, after six years in office, is running low on intellectual energy. To some extent that is inevitable, and particularly for a conservative presidency dedicated to reducing the power of Government; sweeping new programs, to put it mildly, are not its forte. All in all, a sense is growing in Washington that the creative period of the Reagan Administration is over, and the prospect is for two years of drift while the thoughts of the nation turn increasingly to the post-Reagan era about to begin. Some longtime Reagan loyalists outside the Government even...