FOR more than a decade staff and media students at the Grimsby Institute, a college in Lincolnshire, have broadcast worthy programmes to a smattering of nearby cable TV subscribers.
This congruence in language is hardly surprising, since the Blair and Clinton teams are a living advertisement for all those worthy programmes designed to promote cultural exchange between the young.
NGO activists, too, often look for some element of sacrifice on the part of business, if only to demonstrate a degree of moral commitment without which, they fear, a company's worthy programmes may disappear with the next downturn.Both arguments are too narrow.
Today C4 struggles to secure ad revenue, but while Abraham's predecessors campaigned for state subsidy, he insists that the model of being an independently funded not-for-profit channel that cross-funds its less bankable but worthy programmes is necessary to retain its integrity.
Is this particular research programme worthy, or not?
I would still work there, would still see them as worthy of a programme to improve conditions for the people, but the sting of it has gone and it probably won't return.
One of the saddest by-products of England's vainglorious bid was the extent to which the FA's excellent and worthy international development programme was subsumed and subverted by the demands of the campaign.
But not just for that: in Semple's breadth of knowledge and careful exposition of the myriad factors underpinning that beautiful, misbegotten country, we learnt more than I have from any other source this last year about Afghanistan: a crucial programme, worthy of many repeats.
He said that the "overriding priority is to unite Brazil around an honourable programme worthy of all Brazilians".
Furthermore, the collective obligation among EU countries to implement programmes at this time should motivate member states to collaborate on the development of promising programmes worthy of implementation and evaluation.
