Word: programming
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Death of a Princess [May 19] is the exploitation of a pathetic human tragedy. How lovely it would have been if PBS had withdrawn the program, not because of pressure but simply out of respect for another country's religious beliefs and customs. Such an act of kindness might have been one small step toward peace, a healing balm for our frightened and anguished world...
...Carter tested out some themes that he will use in the fall campaign. He asserted that his Administration is "turning the tide" on the nation's problems, predicting that the inflation rate will go down beginning this summer and claiming, very dubiously, that he had started an energy program "more ambitious than the space program, the Marshall Plan, and the interstate highway program combined." But his unexciting delivery moved the audience to only tepid applause, and once his 17-minute talk was over, the people rapidly dispersed...
...object is not to be foolhardy," continued Carter. "But then you have to take a chance. Take a chance on an energy program, on a Middle East peace treaty, on a rescue mission. If you are not willing to risk defeat in Congress or internationally, you get nothing done. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose...
...Pentagon's most ambitious incentive program aims at encouraging re-enlistment of those whose skills are in high demand in the civilian economy. The size of each bonus is determined by a complex formula involving the person's base pay, the length of the re-enlistment and the scarcity of the skill. Bonuses can be collected only twice during a career and may not exceed $12,000, except for enlisted men in the Navy's nuclear service...
...success at Solomon Brothers led her to apply this fall to both business and law schools. Her knees continued to strengthen, and she kept up classes. Now president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Company, she directed their production this spring. She was accepted to the joint J.D. and M.B.A. program at Stanford, a program that "a lot of people would kill to get into" she says, but Wilkerson did not deliberate long before she rejected the law school and deferred the business school. Next year she will go to New York and try to get a job as a dancer...