Word: orientedness
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"Most of the other candidates with little money are more issue-oriented," McShea said. "So they won't drop out just because of money."
In 1988, a mentoring program was added. It had a "goal-oriented purpose," says Bard. "It's become known that one-on-one mentoring with an older person is good for teens at risk." Karen's mentor, an area graduate student training to be a social worker, is the only...
Among youth, then, cigarette advertising unduly influences free choice. The tobacco industry maintains that its ads are not focused upon this most vulnerable market. Is it coincidence that cigarette marketers target youth-oriented magazines? Is it coincidence that teenage youth are twice as likely as adults to smoke the most...
Formerly known as the Learning Channel, TLC wasn't always this intuitive. Before Discovery Communications acquired it in 1991, the channel's more scintillating programs included an IRS-sponsored instructional called The Subject Is Taxes and the crafts-oriented Sew What's New. Translating its pedagogical mission into warmer, fuzzier...
On the software side, Apple includes its new iMovie, a consumer-oriented program for editing digital video. You can plug your digital camera right into the iMac, add sound tracks, titles, music and special effects and edit away. Also, starting next week, the machine will ship with Apple's latest...