Word: programming
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...would not be nearly enough to prevent further inflation, especially if Reagan adds to defense spending. As a start - and it would be only a modest one - his advisers want to take a substantial slice out of the $8.9 billion Government travel budget and the $10 billion food-stamp program...
...show was an effete, elitist program that went on at great length," says former Producer Paul Friedman (no relation to current Producer Steve Friedman). "When I arrived in May 1976, the news ran from 7 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. After the weather there would be a 20-minute debate between the lovers of seals and the users of seals. From 8 to 8:15 an interview with the author of India from 1822 to 1925. At 8:30, after more news and weather, there would be a 20-minute interview with Yehudi Menuhin." Says TomBrokaw: "Sometimes Today was just...
...safe in television, and some people on the show complain that Pauley, who had spent only four years in broadcasting before she was hired in 1976, does not work hard enough. "One day she can do a hell of a job," says one of the program's newsmen. "The next day she can blow you right out of the water...
...best guess for the program's recent rise in the ratings, however, is that it has finally found a replacement for J. Fred Muggs: Weatherman Willard Scott. "Willard is the first break the show has had in a long time," says one Today veteran. "He sincerely loves people and that shows through. He may be corny, but he makes the show personal by touching people...
Dentists are also victims of their own success. With improved equipment like high-speed drills, tooth capping and other repairs can be accomplished in a fraction of the time once needed. Preventive oral hygiene has also paid off in healthier teeth. The three-decades-old program of adding fluoride to drinking water has had dramatic impact on cavities-and so have fluoride toothpastes. An A.D.A. survey shows that a child who drinks fluoridated water from birth to age 14 develops 60% fewer cavities than a youngster who drinks unfluoridated water...