Word: program
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...administration is also trying to limit alcohol supply to minors and has given $1,500 to the "Cops in Shops" program in Cambridge, which plants undercover police officers in liquor stores...
...became the founding director of the Global Programme on AIDS (GPA), a program under the umbrella of the World Health Organization...
...Program suppliers, on the other hand, reap most of the lucrative back-end revenue from selling syndicated reruns of hit network shows (the nets were forbidden by FCC rules to share in that pool until recently). And local stations have much higher profit margins because they can benefit from network hits, in the form of increased ad revenue, without having to share in the costs; the networks instead pay the stations "compensation" as an inducement to carry their programming. This has put the networks in a squeeze, as license fees for hit shows and major sports events have soared...
Even more surprising, however, were the results of computer models done with a federal computer program called SLOSH, which stands for Sea, Lake and Overland Surge from Hurricanes. The program, the backbone of all evacuation studies, takes into account storm tracks, local landmarks and coastal geography to calculate the effects of a hurricane storm surge, the dome of water pushed ashore by strong winds. Such surges can be the deadliest aspect of a hurricane. An immense surge overflowed the city of Galveston, Texas, in 1900 and killed more than 8,000 people, and possibly as many...
...thought of getting laid up in a hospital in Karachi makes you feel queasy, MedJet Assistance may be just the cure. In the unlikely event you're involved in a serious accident while traveling either at home or abroad, this newfangled Birmingham, Ala., "membership program" ($150 to $225 a year) will fly you to any hospital anywhere in a fully medically equipped LearJet. Just don't make a habit of it; the policy allows a maximum of two of these luxury flights per customer...