The nips, tucks and revisions still result in a warm and thoughtful embrace of everything from the introductory 3-D flight of Santa to New York (special glasses are provided, attached to the program) to the truncated "Nutcracker" and a reimagined "New York at Christmas," which puts the Rockettes in snowy white (with touches of red and green) aboard a double-decker sightseeing bus.
Among the enhancements attached to the program, visitors to the PBS Web site, www.pbs.org, can experience a three-dimensional rendering of the Parthenon, an accompanying book by Paul Cartledge, a Cambridge professor of classics who is one of the on-camera academics.
And, while he gives Bush credit for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a five-year fifteen-billion-dollar plan that was introduced in 2003 (despite the reservations he has about the anti-condom and pro-abstinence message that the right wing insisted on attaching to the program), he is quick to give himself, and his White House, a mulligan.
There were no social services attached to the program to help the homeless get off the streets.
One participant felt "the social value attached to the program (NACP) can only be given by the public sector".
Such broadcasters as The Walt Disney Co., Viacom and General Electric unit NBC have all filed a complaint in federal court concerning the ability of SonicBlue's ReplayTV digital-TV recorder boxes to let viewers skip the commercials attached to the programs they record.
You refer to "strings attached" to the DMI program, but these are simply safeguards to prevent self-dealing and other abuses.
Some analysts say the central bank should be unilaterally allowed to support stressed countries without attaching strings to the program.
In terms of finances there are costs attached to the development of the program, the purchase of a domain name and airing the website where the questionnaires could be completed.
