Word: hitches
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...possible hitch for TNN is that it is beamed from Westar V, a relatively new satellite that is picked up by fewer cable operators than RCA's Satcom III-R. With its almost 40 hours of original programming a week, TNN will have its hands full keeping production costs down. Still, country and cable seem like a good match. For one thing, they share the same rural roots. Indeed, an advertising slogan for the new network claims that it is a service "for people who really love their country." Music, that is. -By Richard Stengel
...CRUCIAL QUESTIOIN is, of course, what the school system decides to do about students who don't meet the competency level for their grade. If, as officials indicate, they treat deficiencies as the fault of the school or of some particular hitch in the curriculum, the use of standardized tests can do nothing but good. If the scores raise what Mary Lou McGrath, director of elementary education, calls "people's level of awareness of accountability" to students, then results like the reading and writing weakness and the sixth grade dip are useful warning signals about where improvement is necessary...
...exercise in the U.S. ability to transport and supply the Hondurans, Operation Big Pine went off without a hitch. But as a test of Honduran military ability, the exercise appeared to be a failure. The ill-trained Hondurans were unable to cope with the 1,300 tons of equipment rained on them by the U.S. Nor did they show any great mastery of the battlefield discipline necessary to repel a hypothetical Corinthian advance. The 528 Honduran paratroopers dropped into the war-game zone, for example, spent two full hours attempting to regroup into companies. When one trooper was slightly injured...
...Battle of the Bands," the Undergraduate Council's first social event, went off without a hitch Saturday night, following a controversy last week surrounding the selection of outside judges by one of the band contest participants...
...were partners in a financial consulting business in 1969 when they observed that it was possible to get 8% or 9% on short-term investments in money-market instruments, whereas consumers were earning only 5% in passbook savings accounts. The hitch was that most people did not have the $100,000 or so that it took to buy higher-yielding investments, such as commercial paper and certificates of deposit. Brown and Bent's solution: a mutual fund that would allow lots of people to pool their money and get into the higher-yielding market. They worked out details while...