Word: program
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...have come to long for in the White House's increasingly ineffectual inflation fight. In the past year, not only have prices throughout the economy surged into double digits and stayed there, but the Administration's chief weapon in the struggle, its year-old voluntary wage and price guidelines program, has proved hopelessly inadequate to the task...
Dressed in somber gray suits and minus 25 Ibs. (thanks to a low-fat diet), he stressed pet schemes: overhaul the fiscal and monetary system, rebuild the cities, renew the space program, balance the federal budget, protect the environment, phase out nuclear energy. Says Brown: "The Democratic Party is headed for defeat in November unless it comes up with the answers for the decline in our economy, the decline of our technology...
Says Farouk Abdel Nabi, an Egyptian with the World Food Program, a United Nations agency operating in Bangkok: "I can tell you after what I have seen I am willing to kill myself to get food for these people." Says a diplomat in Thailand: "The Khmers are teetering on the brink of being extinguished as a race. They will perish unless something is done right now and very fast...
Until now, attempts to get food to the starving Khmers have been hampered by red tape and the anarchic conditions inside Cambodia. The World Food Program, UNICEF and the International Red Cross have been supplying emergency rations to the refugees who have fled into Thailand as well as to the 80,000 Thais who have been displaced from their border villages by the fighting. Initially, Hanoi and the regime of Heng Samrin in Phnom-Penh objected to the relief operation because many of the refugees being helped were considered members or supporters of the Khmer Rouge. But it now appears...
...conclusion of the contentious 45-minute session, Kissinger complained to network executives that Frost had distorted the record, and reportedly insisted on a chance to elaborate on his answers. The NBC brass were sympathetic. "This program wasn't supposed to be David Frost vs. Henry Kissinger," said William Small, president of NBC News. "It was supposed to be an interview with Henry Kissinger." Indeed, the unedited transcript reveals that the Interviewer talked more than the interviewee, always a bad sign. But Frost had felt all along that this verbal tactic would be essential. Said...