Word: programming
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...years, but the killing seemed to give them new impetus. But the proposals, which will involve busing hundreds of students in an attempt to racially balance predominantly white schools in some parts of the city, remained politically controversial. The school committee punted the case last spring, setting up a program that will tentatively balance the system but only for one year. This fall, the wary politicians will have to decide how far to go, a decision that may be made easier by the threat of state intervention should they act too timidly...
...reducing job opportunities in an effort to hold down rising prices. He not only is the first to advocate such a plan, he was also the first to get away with it. Ted Kennedy and the liberals won their floor fight, swinging the convention behind a $12 million jobs program. But they lost where it counted; even while delegates were shouting "JOBS, JOBS, JOBS," Carter was telling his aides that he could never endorse such a program. Too inflationary, explained Carter, who later in the day would send a letter to the convention defending the $60 million M-X missile...
...movement will realize that Carter spurned their ERA and abortion platform planks, some Blacks walked out last night because he wouldn't even meet with them, and labor may recognize that "hundreds of thousands of jobs" promised by Carter is not quite the same as the $12 billion employment program he repudiated. Four years ago, Carter was an untested commodity--liberals voted for him with hope. If they vote for him this time, it will be with a sense of resignation, knowing that they merely cast anti-Reagan ballots. And in supporting Carter, the left will submerge itself once again...
Last year Masters and Johnson published Homosexuality in Perspective, describing a similar program for homosexuals; this time, they said, only 28% of their patients resisted a conversion to heterosexuality...
Still, therapists are encountering more tricky cases in which sexual difficulties are tied to psychological problems, as opposed to Masters and Johnson's emphasis on sex as a behavioral "natural function." Says Kevin Gordon of the Human Sexuality Program at the University of California at San Francisco: "The symptoms are part of larger issues-like anger in a marriage. It's all very complicated...