Word: programing
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...trust instead, pending a court of appeal decision on its legality. Neighboring Alberta and probably Saskatchewan will make their payments on schedule in January but will accompany them with formal protests. The West's purpose: to force Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to renegotiate the National Energy Program he announced last October, which sharply increased the federal share of oil and gas revenues...
Even if the courts decide to overrule the tax boycott, Trudeau's program will still face other obstacles in the West. In Alberta, the country's leading oil supplier, Premier Peter Lougheed warned that unless Ottawa negotiates a higher price for crude, the province will not only cut back production by 15% but will hold up construction of two new refineries...
...happened, but nobody heard much about it. Bunky bestowed his own moniker on the group that evolved from the street corner, and, as the Sheppards, they had one halfway hit, Island of Love, in 1959. Then they played some live shows, turned up on Dick Clark's TV program and in the mid-60s just disintegrated. It was a typical rock trajectory: amateurs, hit makers, has-beens. But with the Sheppards, there is a difference...
...program offered to 6 million of their subscribers, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Greater New York provide patients whose own doctors recommend operations with the names of three surgeons from whom a second opinion may be sought; the one chosen by the patient receives a $50 fee. Surveying the first 1,500 patients taking advantage of the program, Blue Cross found that in 70% of the cases, the second doctor affirmed the need for the operation. In the remaining 30% of the cases, moreover, only about half the patients were told they did not need surgery...
Pacific Palisades was anything but pacific that night. Parents on the advisory council for the local public schools were angrily debating plans for a court-mandated busing program. When Dave Thomsen, 36, a management consultant, objected to shipping small children 20 miles away to school, someone shouted, "Thomsen, if you don't like the way Los Angeles schools are run, why don't you just leave?" Thomsen walked out, followed by half a dozen parents. "If this were 200 years ago," he said, "we'd be starting our own school." So they did, a mile away from...