Word: programming
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...inauspicious beginning, to say the least. Rogers grew up in State College, Pa., home of Penn State, where her father is an English professor and her mother taught French. Rogers joined the highly competitive State College High School track program in ninth grade...
Speaking at the second session of a fourday Learning for Performers program, at which he is artist-in-residence, Minnelli fielded questions after a showing of his film, "The Clock," which was made in 1945 and starred Minnelli's first wife, Judy Garland...
Spartacist League candidate for San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, Diana Coleman, ran on an explicitly socialist program; the only alternative to the "lesser evil" shell game of bourgeois politics. And the labor movement and minorities in San Francisco enthusiastically responded with over 7000 votes for Coleman. Unlike the liberal despair expressed at the "anti-Reagan" rally at Harvard, the labor movement in San Francisco rallied around Coleman's campaign slogan: "Enough! It's time for a Workers Party!" Barry Kallio
...other big sugar producer, accounts for close to 10% of world output and has enjoyed a good harvest. But sugar in that country is now winding up as an important source of automotive fuel instead of as a sweetener on dinner tables. Brazil has embarked on a crash program to manufacture ethyl-alcohol automobile fuel from sugar cane. And last month, when the Persian Gulf war halted oil shipments from Iraq, which supplies 50% of Brazil's petroleum imports, the government slapped an emergency ban on all new sugar export contracts. The action is expected to remove at least...
Under McNamara, the World Bank embarked on an ambitious program to increase lending commitments to $30 billion by 1985. Last year the bank lent over $12 billion, up from $1 billion in 1968, when McNamara was appointed president. In an emotional farewell speech to the bank's annual meeting last month, McNamara defended often unpopular foreign aid to underdeveloped countries. Said he: "Investment in the human potential of the poor is not only morally right, it's very sound economics...