Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...control pills to the ladies. Sometimes he brings along his latest line in antifertility T shirts or panties bearing the message A CONDOM A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY. Once he passed out free condoms to the entire Bangkok police force, then announced it as his "cops and rubbers" program...
...only 1.9% a year, against 3.3% a decade ago. Granted, much of the credit goes to the government, which aggressively pushes free condoms and pills. But some think Mechai, the father of one child, has done at least as much as the bureaucracy. His flair has popularized the program, and his private network of distributors has spread contraceptives deep into remote rural areas...
...villages to peddle pills and condoms: rice farmers, shopkeepers, silk weavers, fruit vendors, at least one undertaker and a golf caddy. "They are all respected people in the community," he says. "They are trusted." The volunteer family planners also help run Mechai's nonpregnancy agricultural credit program, which offers low-cost loans to farmers who avoid pregnancy until the loan is repaid...
...pushing buttons on a keyboard; each frame has its own number. For instance, on a disc that contains images of art masterpieces, a viewer could jump from a picture of Rembrandt's Self-Portrait to Degas's Ballet Scene in a matter of seconds. Sound for the program can also be reproduced in stereo...
...last week's program a commissioned work, Ausencias, by Venezuelan Alvaro Cordero-Saldivia, was forgettable. It is a busy, dense-textured work that seeks to combine elements of Afro-American music with academic compositional procedures-what the composer calls "a gradual unfolding of two musics that have a totally contrasting profile." Yet the whole proved less than the sum of its parts...