Word: programer
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...hopes to start work in a computer keypunch training program soon "so maybe I can get a good job and move away from here." Says she: "These apartments are ragged. They need to just tear 'em down. You can come around here at night and see all the rats. We haven't had any mailboxes the whole time I've been living here. We used to have to go to the post office to get the mail. Well, now the post office has been burned...
...moved an important step closer to succeeding in the effort. After nearly six months of haggling and bargaining, House and Senate conferees finally agreed to the broad outlines of the third, and in some ways most important, part of Carter's 1979 energy package: a $20 billion program of federally subsidized synthetic fuel plants, plus close to $6 billion in related energy spending...
...WORD REFERENDUM question was far from extreme. It outlined the PQ program of "sovereignty-association"--which the plebiscite described as "a new agreement with the rest of Canada based on the equality of nation." According to the PQ's platform, sovereignty-association would enable Quebec to acquire axclusive jurisdiction over law, taxation, and foreign relations while at the same time maintaining an economic association with Canada, including a common currency. The question also stated that no change in Quebec's political status would occur without approval through another referendum. The vote last week, then, simply requested a mandate to negotiate...
...accident that Grant's show runs opposite the afternoon TV soaps. Says Bruce Marr, who was KABC program director when Grant arrived in 1975: "People are tuning away from soap opera to listen to the radio shrinks because they can tune into the bedrooms of real people rather than just listen to actors." In fact, Grant's kaffeeklatsch counseling has been such a smash that stations around the country, particularly on the West Coast, are rushing to clone her. Marr, now at Seattle's KVI, has hired Jennifer James, a cultural anthropologist. Station KXRX in San Jose...
Grant believes that most of her listeners can cope with life's problems; they just need some feedback and confidence. Seriously disturbed callers are screened out or referred on the air to psychotherapists. "My program is an extension of the consulting room, but it's not psychotherapy," says Grant. Her critics are not so sure. "My gut feeling is against any psychologist who shoots from the hip," says Joseph R. Sanders of the American Psychological Association's (A.P.A.) ethics committee. The spread of radio shrinks, in fact, is producing grumblings among professionals who consider instant airborne advice...