Word: prods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Home Prod...
...introducing in April a new Computers section. Says Senior Writer Frederic Golden, who contributed to this week's cover stories-Computers were once regarded as distant, ominous abstractions, like Big Brother. In 1982 they truly became personalized brought down to scale, so that people could hold, prod and play with them." Golden often writes his own stories at home on a TRS-80 Model III; another cover contributor, Computers Section Writer Philip Faflick, works on an Apple II Plus in his apartment. Indeed, by October 1983, the entire TIME editorial operation will be using the latest generation of word...
...even part of the original agenda for the lameduck session, which was requested by President Reagan to prod Congress into passing the necessary appropriation bills for fiscal 1983, a period that began, of course, last October. The members bungled that task, the result being that 80% of the Government's funding needs had to be lumped once again into a catch-all piece of legislation called a continuing resolution. They did better when it came to granting themselves a pay raise and grabbing pork-barrel goodies (see box). Said Oklahoma Democrat James Jones, chairman of the House Budget Committee...
Betancur certainly sounded nonaligned. Even his public remarks at lunch with Reagan, after their 45-minute private talk, were harsh. He said that Colombian products are denied full access to the U.S. market by tariffs, that the U.S. should prod the IMF to lend more money more easily to countries like his, and that industrialized powers generally renege on their vague, rosy promises to help developing countries. Alluding to the unaccommodating U.S. attitude toward Marxist Nicaragua, Betancur said that hemispheric interests are ill served "either by pressure or isolation." Reagan did not reply in kind. His speech, muted and conciliatory...
...current administration that should be on the defensive. Its overall supply-side economic policy has proved a colossal failure. Spartan monetary policy has kept interest rates high, while investors have not reacted to the tax-giveaway prod as they were supposed to. Instead, the wealthy are worried about deficits--Reagan deficits. Along with new unemployment statistics expected to show no improvement in the availability of jobs, these realities ought to give Democrats plenty to talk about on the stump this month...