Word: program
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ought to be enough that Hanks is a solid, supple actor who not only takes ornery subjects (AIDS, Vietnam, the U.S. space program) and turns them into hits (Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13), but also gives almost all his movies a moral center. In this age of the outlaw, he defines the ideal norm: he is our best us on our worst day, soldiering on through heartbreak. In Saving Private Ryan, for which he may earn his third Oscar as the tough, paternal Captain Miller, Hanks has a moment when the burden of leadership in war has nearly broken...
...natural order of things, this willingness to go off and throw yourself into strange circumstances. I was never afraid to pack up and go off." And when he wasn't going off, he was looking up--at the stars. His obsession with the U.S. space program, which blossomed into Apollo 13 and his own HBO series From the Earth to the Moon, began here...
...offers no deduction. You can take as much as a $1,500-per-student credit on 1998 taxes by using the Hope Scholarship and prepaying now for the college spring semester. You can take up to a $1,000 credit per family by using the lifetime learning credit. Each program has income limits and other restrictions...
WILLIAM H. KEELER, Archbishop of Baltimore: "Highlighting the problem will help combat the spread of disease. We teach that chastity outside of marriage--our young people call it the True Love Waits program--is the only real way to show respect for ourselves and others. More than 7,000 of our youth have made such a written pledge...
Turns out the popular Palm III handheld computer is even handier than people realized. Last week maker 3Com confirmed rumors that a free program that lets the unit double as a remote control for TVs can also be used by thieves to unlock car doors equipped with infrared remote locking systems. But only a few cars (including some Mercedes-Benz) use such a system, and because a thief must first copy the code from the remote sold with the car, 3Com declared such break-ins "nearly impossible...