Word: projects
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Until now, the 270,000 participants in the demonstration project-a joint effort of the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society-automatically received annual mammograms, along with a manual examination of the breasts and thermograms (tumor-detecting heat pictures). But under the new policy, mammograms will be restricted, until further studies are completed, to women 50 and above-an age group known to have profited from them-and others who have a greater than ordinary risk of breast cancer: women who have a family history of the disease, have lumps or pains in their chests or have reached...
...scheme is bold, perhaps foolhardy. Film the entire Bible. The movies would run for 100 hours, take 33 years to make and cost at least $256 million. However grandiose a notion, that is exactly what the entrepreneurs of the Genesis Project have set out to do. Judging from the quality of the first ten segments now being previewed by pastors and educators from coast to coast, the Genesis people are off to a good start...
...project is being funded without a sou from a synagogue or a church. A straight commercial venture, it is backed by 18 wealthy businessmen, most of them British and American, who have already anted up $5 million. The startup money came from John Heyman, 43, a self-described "inactive Jew," who has produced more than 40 feature films, including The Go-Between and The Hireling. Now he works full time as chief executive of the Genesis Project: "It was a unique opportunity to share my ability as a film maker as opposed to putting on another piece of slurp...
...gasoline stations, many American towns were extinguishing Christmas lights to conserve electricity, and a new Washington energy bureaucracy was drafting a program to encourage conservation and the development of domestic fuel sources so as to eliminate dependence on oil from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries by 1985. Today, Project Independence is largely dead; federal energy analysts concede that there is no way for the U.S. to become totally independent of foreign...
These and other unhappy effects of the U.S. energy bind continue partly because of policy dithering in Washington. For all the continued lip service to Project Independence, domestic oil production is actually sagging. Although more wells are expected to be drilled this year than last (41,800, v. 39,097), production is expected to be off 3.3%, continuing a long, slow slide that began in 1971. The slide is expected to extend into 1978, when Alaskan oil will begin flowing...