Word: programer
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...equalize the cost of crude to all oil refiners. Firms buying cheap domestic oil are taxed a certain amount for being "entitled" to acquire inexpensive crude. That money is then given back to refiners who import expensive OPEC oil and to refiners who use expensive uncontrolled domestic oil. The program, in effect, subsidizes imported oil at a time when official Government policy is to discourage imports. Though North Slope oil is domestic, the cost of building and operating the Alaska pipeline makes the crude relatively expensive to transport, so the Government treated it as something between domestic and foreign...
...program books and bright marquees spell out the official version of the 1980 National Basketball Association championship series: the Los Angeles Lakers vs. the Philadelphia 76ers. But basketball fans across the country know that the real name of these final games is: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar vs. Julius Erving. No matter what the outcome, the 1980 championship will be remembered as the long awaited meeting of the Big Guy and the Doctor...
Besides choreography, Balanchine works on everything from posters to hairpieces. He must al ways compensate for emergencies and injuries; the company is hard-hit right now. On the night of the Ballade premiere, both men who dance The Steadfast Tin Soldier, also on the program, could not perform. The company got a little help from an old friend, Mikhail Baryshnikcv. Watching him cavort through the part, one could not help thinking that he, as much as any other dancer, suffered lost opportunities because of Balanchine's illness...
...Detroit, the high school system has introduced writing proficiency tests for graduates. All Detroit high school courses now require students to write at least two compositions a month. Ohio schools are offering Young Authors programs, Including publication of student writing and conferences at which they can discuss their work. More than 200,000 students from grades 1 through 12 in 35 states are engaged in the Individualized Language Arts program, funded by the Government. I.L.A. students meet two or three times a week, write short paragraphs on the same assigned topic, read them aloud, discuss possible improvements and then revise...
Another goal of the Iowa program is to combat what the institute calls the "battered writer syndrome," i.e., student papers that are slashed with red pencil in the margins-awk for awkward phrase, dangle for dangling participles and modifiers-without any comments on substance. Says Iowa's David Hamilton: "Once you and the writer agree on what he is trying to say, then you can come to agreement about how to put it into form...