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Programmed
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Past of program
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It renders their own survival immaterial and means they're programmed to do whatever's necessary to enhance the survival of the group.
They programmed the game in their spare time, accessing the computer labs in the evenings.
"I keep forgetting that most people are totally friggin' oblivious to how they are being programmed and controlled from birth upwards from your name, being a 'citizen', which basically enters you into a contract, it goes on from there".
Dutchwoman Anouk van den Waal argued that: "If there could be an emergency machine that manufactures leaders in a crisis, Mrs Merkel is probably something we would have programmed into it.
Your two-year-old niece may be incredibly advanced but she is developmentally programmed to put small things in her mouth.
"My theatres have no public funds and live purely off ticket sales," said José Cimarro, a Madrid producer who has programmed Madame Bovary, The War of the Roses and An Inspector Calls at his two theatres, La Latina and Bellas Artes.
A theatre that has just programmed first plays by DC Moore, Polly Stenham and Alexi Kaye Campbell can look any playhouse in the world in the eye.
He joined the RSC, and in 1992 started to run the Donmar, which he has programmed with an eclectic mix, from Stoppard and Sondheim to Shakespeare.
Several of the projects programmed by Hytner, including War Horse and One Man, Two Guvnors, went on to significant success in the West End and abroad.
Surely we're programmed to soak up as much information as we can?
For example, those being monitored for a UTI are asked about their state of health before they got an infection, and these questions are programmed into their home unit to answer every day.
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