Word: programer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...December meeting gives Bush a defenseagainst Democratic charges that he has been slowto respond to initiatives from Gorbachev and tothe striking changes under way in the Soviet Unionand elsewhere in Eastern Europe. Gorbachev,meanwhile, is under pressure to demonstrate thathis program of economic restructuring can improvethe lives of ordinary Soviet citizens
Czechoslovakia began a sweeping program of liberal reforms under Communist leader Alexander Dubcek, but the so-called "Prague Spring" was quashed by the Warsaw Pact invasion of August...
Even in the unpredictable Soviet Union, television viewers must be astonished by a new program on one of the two state-run channels. Last week, in a Sunday time slot following the evening news, Metropolitan Pitirim, head of the publishing department of the Russian Orthodox Church, appeared on the screen garbed in clerical robes and holding prayer beads. For ten minutes, Pitirim spoke soothingly about the need to set aside daily troubles in order to help others and contemplate the meaning of life. The priest also worked in discreet mentions of Jesus Christ and the Bible...
...vein, many computer customers believe the industry's innovative efforts at the moment are failing to fill users' needs. They believe the expansion during the early and mid-1980s was based largely on the proliferation of such breakthrough products as the Apple II personal computer (1977); WordStar, the wordprocessing program (1979); VisiCalc, an electronic accounting ledger or spreadsheet (1979); the IBM PC (1981); Apple's Macintosh, with its advanced graphics capability (1984); and desktop- publishing gear like Aldus PageMaker...
...Phelan, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. Yet even some Wall Street insiders have had misgivings. Warns Edward Yardeni, chief economist for Prudential-Bache Securities: "A 7% drop in the Dow Jones index is destabilizing to individual investors, and we need them in the market, not just the program-trading boys...