Word: programer
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...more of the city's elderly and handicapped were losing their only asset, their homes, because of steadily rising tax bills. It was the city's obligation to help, said Carbone. Since then, Hartford has spent between $22,800 and $66,000 a year for the program. The unions haven't complained, since no budgeted jobs are involved. There are usually about 100 eligible clients, and if there should be more who are worthy, "we'll go after more money," says Hargreaves. "We're doing more than saving people's homes...
...Barbara Timm in more ways than one. She is anything but a political activist, although she does care about social causes that touch her life. Her five children living at home are among the few in Oak Creek bused to Milwaukee's public schools under a voluntary integration program. Familiar with the problems of the mentally ill, she has testified before state hearings on the subject. But for the most part, she and her family live quietly, bowling a lot, going on camping trips, playing the guitar...
Meanwhile, the Public Broadcasting Service, whose Boston outlet co-produced the film, said last week that it would not change its plans to televise the two-hour program, over more than 100 stations, on May 12. State Department officials in Washington acknowledged that the Saudis had expressed their concern about the showing. They were obviously paying no heed to an old Hollywood adage: the louder the protest, the bigger the audience...
...career of the Rev. Jim Jones. Guyana drew 46% of the national audience the first night and 50% the second, wiping out the success of ABC's Academy Awards pageant earlier in the week. "It was all over after Guyana," says Consultant Michael Dann, a former programming chief at both CBS and NBC. "It was the first time in broadcasting history that a single program determined who won the season...
...other day for Eugene Ormandy. He will study scores, do some arm exercises, take a nap. After dinner he will walk the few blocks from his elegant Barclay Hotel apartment to Philadelphia's venerable Academy of Music. There he will conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra in a typical Ormandy program, the First Symphonies of Shostakovich and Mahler. No matter what tributes or ceremonies may be offered, he will try to step down from the podium as usual with a minimum of sentiment and fuss...