Word: becton
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Preparing for exams is an accepted part of classroom life, but students at Henry P. Becton Regional High School in East Rutherford, N.J., may soon be given the sort of test that is hard to cram for. Two months ago, the local school board voted that all 479 of the youngsters at Becton must submit to urinalysis in a search for drug users. The screening is now on hold, while five students backed by the American Civil Liberties Union test the testing in court. "It's against the Bill of Rights that we're supposed to be learning about...
...many biotechnology companies have been looking for fresh capital infusions and alliances with big chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Cytogen (fiscal 1983 revenues: $383,000), a small Princeton, N.J., firm, for example, has developed a kit for diagnosing gonorrhea. But it sold the technology to Health Care Manufacturer Becton Dickinson of Paramus, N.J., which will actually make the product...
...does accomplish what it was intended to do: provide an alternative to the general dreariness of the commercial networks. If the Reagan budget cuts go through and new money is not found, the system will begin to shrink, and eventually could disappear. Warns WGBH's general manager Henry Becton: "In two years public television could be a pale shadow of what it was-with nothing to replace it." -By Gerald Clarke...
Stephen Bailey, professor of Education, who helped to draft the report of the Carnegie Commission for the Future of Public Broadcasting, and Henry Becton, general manager of WGBH-TV, offered different perspectives on how public television could best adapt to meet the needs of the public...
...Becton said local public television stations will have to find innovative methods of dealing with the introduction of cable television and video discs on a large scale, possibly by releasing discs before release of cable and regular programs...