Word: programing
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...public good required them. In 1901 President Theodore Roosevelt suggested--to no avail--that "the Government should have the right to inspect and examine the workings of the great corporations engaged in interstate commerce." Thirty-seven years later, populist Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney proposed a more far-reaching program called the "National Charters for National Business." It bombed...
...matter how attractive it is, this bill doesn't have a prayer of passing in its entirety. During economically ailing times, in the face of rising public conservatism, it is highly unlikely that such a progressive program will gain widespread support. The purpose of Big Business Day and the introduction of the Corporate Democracy bill is to call attention to the abuses of corporate power and the means available to put an end to them; but the implications of "free" enterprise are as deeply rooted as the corporations themselves. Although the effects of the Corporate Democracy Act are sorely needed...
...activities program for the children, who consequently found less desirable ways of releasing their pent-up energies, such as attacking the staff with chairs...
...swelling madness, experiences of Harvard varsity athletes furnish a patchwork of no particular pattern. Crimson soccer forward Mauro K. Sarmiento '82 of Buenos Aires, for instances, one of the squad's leading goal scorers the last two seasons, says he had no idea about what sort of athletic program Harvard offered. "In fact, I wrote to the athletic department after I was accepted and received no response," he adds...
MALFI DOESN't EXIST in this production of The Duchess of Malfi. The turgid program note warns that Webster's seventeenth-century tragedy is a "waking dream." An empty lavender platform represents the ducal palace of Malfi; in Laura Shiels and Cynthia Raymond's stylized production, this psychological drama could take place anywhere or anytime within one's imagination. Shiels and Raymond interpolate dance and mime into the story to indicate the tensions beneath the Renaissance rhetoric. A veil hangs at the back of the stage, behind which a "Duchess of Imagination" flirts while the real Duchess in front disclaims...