Word: program
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...This style has already produced a number of "presidential stumbles," among them the rejection of John Knowles for the post of Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, and Franklin Long for the directorship of the National Science Foundation; as well as decisions about desegregation guidelines and the hunger program...
...ornament and few windows. In World War II, Novgorod was once again attacked by foreign forces, this time the Germans, whose destruction was perhaps greater than any before. The Soviet government commissioned Shchusev, the architect who designed the Lenin Mausoleum, to plan the city's reconstruction, a program that has resulted in the restoration of many churches, including the lovely 14th century Church of the Savior of the Transfiguration. In its dome can be seen the divergence of the Russian from the Byzantine model. Finding Byzantium's semispherical dome ill-suited to the heavy snow of the north...
...name became better known in Washington, Anderson branched out, supplementing his Pearson income with speaking engagements, books and articles, particularly for Parade magazine (he has been its Washington correspondent since 1954). For twelve years, he collaborated with Pearson on a radio news-commentary program; on television, he conducts a weekly political forecast of the highly predictable. A last-week sample: "Teddy will fight back...
...primary role in Jamaica's rise from a stagnant British Crown colony to political independence and economic wellbeing. He was among the first and foremost organizers of a campaign to attract both tourists and industry to bolster the island's historic one-crop sugar trade. The program was so successful that today Jamaica is one of the world's major producers of bauxite for aluminum and tourism is becoming a $100 million-a-year industry...
...million bushels of grain that the state produces annually, plan to switch from rail to barges in order to get the grain to New Orleans for the start of the ocean voyage. Some residents of northern Alabama even foresee a role for the barge ships in the U.S. space program. If a projected canal is built, they expect space vehicles made by Wernher von Braun's team at Huntsville to be floated by barge to Mobile, Ala. for ocean shipment to Cape Kennedy...