Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everybody in this book wants to be thought of as a cowboy poking along into the sunset. They tend to value--even rely on--community much more than Americans are supposed to. Take, for example, Sam Lopez, a former gang member, who reformed and eventually became director of a program for ex-offenders. Like many others, he cannot achieve personal satisfaction until he has helped others; he doesn't come off at all preachy, only determined to see that the American Dream is spread as widely as possible. Terkel does have is share of individualists--a race car driver...
...panelists, all graduates of the Master of Public Administration program at the Kennedy School, last week participated at the World Bank Conference at which Paul McNamara, the bank's president, resigned...
...intensifying official campaign against "antisocialist elements." The leader of one dissident fringe group was arrested last week after calling for an end to Communist rule in a West German TV interview. Jacek Kuron, head of the far more influential KOR dissident group, was also denounced in a government news program that broadcast edited excerpts of a Swedish interview in which he appeared to favor the violent overthrow of the Communist regime. In Kuron's defense, Walesa warned that slandering KOR members could be a violation of the Gdansk agreement. It was a veiled but unmistakable threat of new strikes...
Within 24 hours of his own appointment by the junta, the new Prime Minister, Bülent Ulusu, 57, a retired admiral, presented a "nonpolitical," 27-member cabinet that gave the seven key ministries to retired army officers. However, Economist Turgut Ozal, author of an austerity program that deposed Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel had pushed through parliament earlier this year, was named Deputy Prime Minister. It was a clear sign that the military intends to give the ailing Turkish economy top priority...
...receive from pay TV and from sales of video cassettes and video discs-remained the chief irritant to union dissidents. The contract guarantees actors 4.5% of gross revenues after the sale of 100,000 cassettes or discs, and 4.5% after each pay-TV outlet has shown a film or program for ten days. But many of the actors believe that they should get their piece of the profit from the first sale of the cassettes and discs and from a first showing on pay TV. There was less contention over other parts of the package: a 32.5% increase over three...