Word: programing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Part of the purpose of Chai week is to get rid of the misconception," said Snow, who added that he did not attend Hillel programs regularly until his friend encouraged him to participate. "It really is a program for all Jews...
...Democratic candidate for Governor, turned the occasion into an I-told-you-so press conference. "Here you have birds that are dying," he lamented. "You have fish that are dying. And so we're going to the people in November with an initiative that will provide for an inspections program and a $500 million fund to respond to spills. This," he said with a wave at the beach, "is a helluva warning...
...seem to have changed their minds: after nearly four years as the top-rated morning show, Today has slipped in the past six weeks to No. 2, behind ABC's Good Morning America. CBS, in the meantime, has dumped its morning co-anchor, Kathleen Sullivan -- oddly, just when the program's third-place ratings were inching upward. Sullivan, whose last day was Friday, will be replaced by a relative unknown: Paula Zahn, who has been doing the newscasts on Good Morning America...
...Moscow Conservatory's yellow-and-white Great Hall was packed with notables, ranging from Raisa Gorbachev to Yevgeny Yevtushenko, when Rostropovich came striding out on stage, threw kisses in all directions and then raised his arms to begin. He had chosen a program full of sad messages: first Samuel Barber's elegiac Adagio for Strings; then Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony, which Rostropovich had performed at his last Moscow concert 16 years ago; then Shostakovich's anguished Fifth Symphony, written at the height of Stalin's purges in 1937. (In three subsequent concerts, two of them in Leningrad, Rostropovich would also...
...begun to nudge older professors out the door with a variety of enticements. Johns Hopkins University decided three years ago to increase the basic pension payments of departing 65-year-olds by 20% to 30% -- a bonus that shrinks the longer they stay. Beloit College in Wisconsin has a program that eases professors into retirement while younger colleagues, with whom they are paired as mentors, are phased into full-time teaching positions...