Word: programing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...disputed software. The message got through. For three days, Revlon claims, hundreds of workers sat idle as two warehouses were unable to ship as much as $60 million in goods. "Software companies have to protect themselves," says Logisticon president Don Gallagher. Revlon says it refuses to pay because the program has failed to perform as promised. The company sued Logisticon last week in California state court for trespassing and breach of contract, calling the repossession "a form of commercial terrorism...
...exceptions to the new truth-in-packaging program remain meat, poultry and egg products, which are regulated by the Department of Agriculture. Restaurant food, prepared dishes sold in supermarkets or delicatessens, infant formula and a few other items, most of them with little or no nutritive value, are likewise exempt...
...prospect of the labeling changes. The reform, he said, would be useful to "millions of Americans who want to reduce their risk of heart and blood-vessel diseases." Earlier this year the A.H.A., bowing to criticism and threatened federal action, scrapped its own HeartGuide seal-of-approval program just two months after it started. "Right now, any product can say it's high-fiber this and bran that," agreed Nancy Hailpern, a legislative assistant for the American Cancer Society. "The bill will do a lot to change that...
With $10,000 in grant money from the Altman Foundation, used mostly for props, salaries and administrative overhead, Christensen and the Big Apple Circus designed a five-week pilot program. As he tuned in to the needs of his new audience, Christensen made changes in his timing and toned down his circus-arena makeup and gestures to suit the bedside. Perhaps the most daunting hurdle was earning the respect and support of the medical staff. "They had to accept that we were there as part of their world," he says...
...Martin Nash, director of Babies' Pediatric Kidney Disease Program, recalls, "Most of us thought it was a wonderful idea, but we were not sure how it would work and if it would be accepted by the parents of sick children. But Michael's and the other clowns' techniques were so disarming, they captivated everybody immediately." Indeed, Nash confides, hospital personnel thoroughly enjoy the shows of Dr. Stubs and his colleagues...