Word: programing
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...draw unemployment compensation that averages about 50% of gross weekly wages. Large unions now have also obtained from employers regular layoff benefits for their members. In addition, workers such as those in the steel, auto and shoemaking industries can count on receiving substantial supplemental payments under a 1962 federal program that grants special aid to employees whose companies suffer from foreign competition. In fact, some steelworkers can be laid off and actually collect total benefits exceeding $360 per week, or more than their previous base take-home...
...unidentified official at Spelling-Goldberg, one of Hollywood's most profitable TV production companies, told her that the breakdown of payments was a ruse to diminish the Wagners' share of the profits. The official also explained to Martin that before the demise of another Spelling-Goldberg program, Starsky and Hutch, $30,000 per episode in Charlie's Angels fees was diverted to the account of the less successful show, in which the Wagners did not have a share...
...Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise, Pritikin with McGrady
...Night in the Ukraine, Groucho lives. So do Chico, Harpo and that lady of the formidable embonpoìnt, Margaret Dumont. The program note says that this exercise in dementia is "loosely based on Chekhov's The Bear." Groucho (David Garrison) is the shysterish Samovar the Lawyer. Chico (Frank Lazarus) is a larcenous tongue-in-cheeky footman to the imperious Mrs. Pavlenko (Hewett), the Dumont role. Perfectly at ease as Harpo, Priscilla Lopez is a creature from another planet, who at one wonderfully zany moment plucks out the inevitable harp solo on the spokes of an upside-down bicycle...
Moses lists the programs under the FDO's auspices: the freshman outdoor program, freshman week orientation, lectures and discussions in the Union, intramurals, the freshman council, concentration selection meetings and, of course, the proctorial and advising system. In the last three years, since all freshmen have been housed in the Yard, the FDO has had to deal with what Henry C. Moses, dean of freshman, terms a "tough philosophical question." "Is the level of panic higher if the community's entirely frosh? I don't know," he concedes. Though he says Harvard "has two freshman years in effect," Moses thinks...