Explores the benefits which local stations can derive from developing long-range plans, and offers some guidance on how local managers can go about the planning process. (Author)

Presents an alternative approach to teaching Systematic Transition Metal Chemistry with the transition metal chemistry skeleton features of interest. The "skeleton" is intended as a guide to predicting the chemistry of a selected compound. (Author/SA)

This article traces federal housing policies related to single family home ownership from their creation in the 1930s to the present. It focuses on policies of the Federal Housing Administration and the Federal Home Loan Bank Board as well as other federal regulators of financial institutions. (Author/RLV)

Describes script-reading projects, teachers' guides, and parent participation workshops offered by the broadcast industry to stimulate reading. (DD)

The increase of interest on the part of corporations in providing health services for employees has created a demand for health personnel. (JD)

A study of sexism and sexist language in definitions, illustrations, and the selection of words to be included in five leading collegiate dictionaries. (DD)

Development and operation of the television industry in India is described with emphasis upon children's television. Matters related to advertising material considered unacceptable, and educational programing are addressed. (RAO)

Discusses recent efforts made by businesses in the USSR and United States to exchange technological information that aids industrial development in both countries. TECHNOTEC and WORLDTECH are described as computerized systems designed by the Control Data Corporation for exchanging technological information. (CS)

Discusses the negative reactions to the Food & Drug Administration's proposed good laboratory practices for nonclinical laboratory practices. Industry representatives protest the inflexibility and excessive detail in the regulations. (MLH)

Discusses rising enrollments in geoscience courses in South Australian secondary schools, and vocational opportunities for geoscience students in Australian mineral industries. (MLH)

Reports recent Senate budget authorization bill that directs the National Science Foundation "to insure that researchers in industry would be permitted to compete for (basic research funds) on an equal basis with researchers in the academic sector." Offers rationale for and discusses consequences of such a shift in policy regarding NSF…

Noting the lack of time in the 2-year program and the impatience of most student technicians, the author suggests that physics should be taught inductively. Laboratory experiments with understanding of the underlying physics principles are suggested as the appropriate center of activity. Examples are given of this emphasis on experimentation as…

Points out that since industrial arts has the potential for providing all students with skills which can be used in life situations, industrial arts educators should help students understand the sophisticated technological society, rather than teaching them skills they never will use. (Editor/TA)

Corporations have found the promise of providing a college education to the children of employees--without the recognition of income to the parent-employee--to be a popular fringe benefit. The Internal Revenue Service has attacked educational benefit trusts in Revenue Ruling 75-448. Implications are discussed. (LBH)

Discusses a survey of thirty-eight African countries which indicates that a combination of co-axial cables and radio-relay links is the system most suited to Available from: Cable Lines, Cablecommunications Resource Center, 2000 K Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036; Subscription Rates: 1 year, $5.00; 2 years, $10.00. (MH)