Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...condescending tone of your article "Dial Dr. Toni for Therapy" [May 26] did your readers a disservice. They may have been entertained, but you failed to inform them that Dr. Grant's program is one of the most significant in the history of broadcasting...
...pledge the Democratic Party to a complete overhaul of the present tax system . . . A responsible Democratic tax reform program could save over $5 billion in the first year with larger savings in the future...
Though the DOE grants have spurred energy innovation, the program has also collected its critics. Last December Senator William Proxmire awarded his monthly Golden Fleece award to the DOE for spending $1,200 to build and test "an above-ground aerobic and solar-assisted composting toilet," an outhouse elevated 2 yds. or 3 yds. above ground, where the human waste is caught on a wire mesh and exposed to sunlight to aid decomposition. Developer Douglas Elley of Lupus, Mo., plans to market his invention as "The Skycrapper," and he proudly praises "the pleasing and aesthetic moments of meditative contemplation...
Some of the ideas are undoubtedly impractical, but many could reduce, in a modest local way, U.S. dependence on imported oil. The $12 million grants program, which is easily lost in DOE'S $7.7 billion budget, could perhaps even help some American tinkerer find a way to capture sunbeams from cucumbers...
Turner will counter the networks with what he considers an electronic newsmagazine. Some weekday highlights: a two-hour news and feature program at noon (E.D.T.); a half-hour of financial and business news at 7 p.m.; a prime-time newscast from 8 to 10; a call-in talk show at 10 with Sandi Freeman, a former Chicago TV personality; a half-hour of sports at 11; and at 1 a.m. a celebrity interview show from Los Angeles with Lee Leonard, ex-host of NBC's Grandstand show. Scheduled throughout the day are reports on such topics as health...