Word: program
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...junior high school auditorium overwhelmingly agreed with him and made itself heard by waving banners, stomping feet and chanting slogans in Spanish. But school-board members, frustrated by Latinos' poor academic performance, said it was time to try something different. They voted unanimously to replace bilingual education with a program of English immersion for immigrants...
...logic that compelled ABC to pay so much for Monday Night Football is also expansive. Without its "crown jewel," ABC would have a serious programming hole on Monday night--try coming up with half a dozen new shows. And even with diminished ratings, football still delivers eyeballs, particularly those of the young male viewers whom advertisers of cars, beer and other guy stuff want to reach. Although Monday Night's ratings are at an all-time low, the program ranked fifth among prime-time shows...
Still, ABC will have to tap other revenue sources. The company laterals its present affiliates about $175 million a year to air network programs in agreed-upon time slots. Iger is calling for a reverse. He wants the affiliates to kick in for their pigskin privileges. "We expect owners to step up and help us pay for it," he says. Iger might be asking you for a couple of nickels too. ESPN, which charges cable operators a program fee for each subscriber, will probably raise rates. The cable operators will hand off those increases to you know...
...International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, a 36-nation body that regulates swordfishing as well as tuna fishing, has set quotas for member countries. "But it's too little too late," argues Carl Safina, director of the Living Oceans Program of the National Audubon Society, who favors a return to harpooning. "People are sick of seeing resources crashing. This goes beyond being an environmental problem; it's a public problem...
Astronaut John Glenn used to dread going to NASA's Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. As a rookie pilot in the space agency's Mercury program, the 40-year-old Marine would periodically be required to strap himself into the tiny pod of a spacecraft simulator and wait for technicians to set it spinning in three dimensions at speeds exceeding 30 r.p.m. Using nothing more than a joystick, Glenn would have to bring the tumbling cockpit to heel. If he succeeded, he would continue in the program. If he failed, he could be bilged...