Word: supplementals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is a children's story, and the good guys get the last word. Peggy Charren, the veteran kidvid activist, notes that educational shows rarely get high ratings because they must be geared toward specific age groups; that is why government monitoring must supplement the marketplace. "It's a bloody shame," she says, "that in a country as rich and achieving as this one, you had to drag the broadcasters kicking and screaming to serve children." Now, perhaps, the kicking may subside and the serving will start...
...money each house saves will go toward a house supplement with information on such aspects of house life as the senior common room and tutor programs, Heinicke said. Savings in excess of the cost of this supplement will go to each house master's discretionary fund...
...more in-depth look at the series, see The Crimson's ECAC Supplement...
...argued against the goal of feeding starving people, but the airdrops raise tricky problems. The quantity of supplies carried by the aircraft is limited; they will supplement, not replace, the aid brought in by truck. The deliveries are to be made by a fleet of 18 C-130 Hercules cargo planes based at the Rhein-Main air base outside Frankfurt, each capable of hauling 12 tons of supplies at a time; the land convoys usually carry from 60 to 100 tons. Dropped from altitudes of 10,000 ft., to stay above the range of antiaircraft fire, the parachuted supplies, says...
...years ago, when Dana Gioia published the title essay to his collection Can Poetry Matter? in the Atlantic Monthly, he caused nothing short of a literary scandal. The Atlantic received more mail than it had in years. Publications as far flung as the Times Literary Supplement and USA Today printed spin-off discussions. Even international radio stations picked up the story. All this over an evaluation of contemporary verse...