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PUBLIC SERVICE JOBS. Once disdained as a relic of the New Deal, the idea of hiring the poor, at least temporarily, to plant trees or patch potholes is gaining among conservatives. Grudgingly aligning themselves with many liberals on this issue, they have concluded that there simply are not enough private jobs available during times of slow economic growth, and that the benefits to the poor, in work experience and dignity, would outweigh the costs...
This week's demonstration, staged by General Instrument, marks a victory for those who have argued that the Japanese approach to television design is all wrong, a relic of 19th century technology that dates back to Marconi and Bell. The future, they say, is digital. To survive in a world dominated by digital chips, digital telephones and digital compact discs, the television of the future must speak in the streams of 0s and 1s that are the language of computers...
...moved the program to Burbank, reflecting an industry-wide migration from the East to the West Coast. In 1980 the show was cut from 90 minutes to an hour, creating a tighter entertainment package out of the more free-flowing gabfest that had become, in some ways, a relic of an earlier TV era. (One element that was lost: book authors, who had often been slotted in the final 15 minutes but who disappeared from the show almost entirely.) One by one, competing talk-show hosts -- Merv Griffin, Joey Bishop, Cavett, Alan Thicke, Joan Rivers, Pat Sajak -- fell away. Even...
Resurrection, Relic Cult, and Asceticism: The Early Fifth Century--by Caroline Bynum, Dept. of History, Columbia University. Andover Hall, Sperry Room, noon...
...races, I know he's going to win or fall. Romantic to the end!" At one point, Teruel pointed out to Tomba that they were wearing the same kind of gloves, and Tomba offered to trade. But the banter never got to barter, and Teruel did not obtain a relic from his hero. "I think he didn't know what to make of me," Teruel says cheerfully...