Word: program
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YOUR DOLLAR'S WORTH (NET, 9-10 p.m.).* "Prescription Drugs: Prices and Perils." Starting with one of the drug industry's most painful and enduring scandals, the sale of thalidomide, this program moves on to discuss contraceptives, fertility drugs, new products and current testing and marketing standards for drugs. Repeat...
...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). In a program that could be Ralph Nader's favorite, Walter Cronkite leads a probe into methods of designing safer cars and highways, plans to improve driver competence and then moves headlong into the problem of traffic congestion...
...sick and tired of hearing the often-used line "Now that we've conquered the moon, let's conquer poverty here on earth." In the short eleven years of its existence, the space program has become the biggest scapegoat in history. Why wasn't poverty conquered before the space program came into being? We have the necessary resources in the U.S. to ensure that everyone is eating regularly, without slowing or abandoning the space program. To stop now would make as much sense as Columbus discovering America and then returning to Europe forgetting his discovery completely...
...participants to answer such questions as whether their beep technique can improve on the rather extravagant 75% to 80% "cure" rates claimed by promoters of other experimental methods. In any case, Tursky and Shapiro are confident that their technique has value, and hope to set up a program soon for dispensing the treatment more widely. Even if smokers have to use their beeper permanently, it should cost them substantially less than cigarettes...
...that judges can get on with what they are presumed to be qualified to do - namely, disposing of cases." Pointing to congested court dockets, Burger called for a conference within 60 days of ten or twelve of "the best-in formed people in this country" to plan a program to train the large numbers of managers that are needed. He suggests that no lawyers or judges, or very few of them, be asked to participate, since "we lawyers and judges have not demonstrated great imagination or skill in this area...