Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...along lead time before you can improve your situation. That's why it's so dangerous to let it get out of balance. Government spending should be reduced on an overall basis. The president is doing it and making some very courageous decisions because frequently these are politically-supported programs, supported by very vigorous and effective special lobbys. They aren't all that good programs, many of them. There is a lot of support, for example, among the lobbys for school lunch and school milk programs. These sound like the height of compassion and anyone who opposes them is bound...
...With a program in shambles following the 1960 point-shaving scandal, a man named Dean Smith took over for the legendary Frank McGuire as Carolina coach. His instructions were simple. Not to be the best. Not to win the most. Simply to play with integrity, hard but fair. To take pride in yourself and your team, to have honor and dignity and courage. Anyone in basketball will tell you Dean Smith has passed these instructions along to his teams. Anyone who has ever seen North Carolina play will tell you his teams listen...
...also swallowed up the surrounding 250 acres of Poletown. GM insisted that the new plant had to be built and in operation by early 1983, so Young took advantage of a recent Michigan law allowing a city to acquire land for use by private enterprise. Detroit began a crash program of forcing home and business owners to sell their properties to the city...
...cable market opening up, we need a larger supply of film makers, a wider range of options." To this end, he has established the Sundance Institute of Film and Video in Provo Canyon, Utah, which holds its first session this June. Says Redford: "I'm hoping that our program will help people realize you don't have to go into the mainstream in order to survive...
...writer to begin renaissance in a tired form he needs to introduce a diction, tone and sensibility that somehow sums up his era and delineates an artistic program for it. One thinks of the short stories of Fitzgerald or the works of Hemingway. But Helprin's art seems produced in almost complete withdrawal from the contemporary scene. He strives for "loveliness" above all else, a tasteful--but hardly compelling--goal for a young writer today, the world and the collective psyche being what they are. Thus, one can hardly call Helprin a voice of our times. Instead, he chooses...