Word: program
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time of little people consumed with little matters, here is a giant who is also a man. After the Challenger disaster, the fissures in the space program began to show, and when the people at NASA started to put the program back together, they shifted its appeal from the heroism of individuals to scientific cleverness--without success. Only last year's Pathfinder probe to Mars revived some of the keen attention people gave the space effort in the early 1960s. However entertaining it was to watch the cute little robot strut its stuff, it would always be the person...
...cast of relatives. Her mother was from the old school. "If you wanted a life, you had to keep those studies up," Bassett says. "If you dropped to C's, no cheerleading, no community theater! I got the message." On the advice of a director in a summer-activities program, she was spurred to dream big and apply to the top schools. Presto, she was at Yale. "And who knew! There were people like...
...important rules. First, remember that e-mail is not a perfectly private medium. If you're writing from the office, even if you use a password, your employer has the legal right to read your messages. Encryption works only if you and your doctor choose the same program, which can be tough to coordinate. So I recommend that you confine your e-mail messages to routine inquiries: appointment scheduling, follow-up questions after a checkup, requests for a prescription refill or a referral. Stanford University Medical Clinic forbids discussion of a patient's HIV status, mental illness or worker...
...most folks do with their 401(k)s or other automatic-investment accounts. That's right: when stock prices fly up and down in dramatic fashion, it's to your advantage. The hard part is gutting out those unnerving price declines. But if you leave your automatic-investing program in place, the payoff will make you feel a lot smarter than friends who try to time the market's zigs and zags...
...private colleges, compared notes on scholarship applicants to equalize aid offers and thereby prevent bidding wars over the best and brightest students. Then in the early '90s, the U.S. Justice Department argued that the Overlap Group was essentially engaging in price fixing and forced an end to the program. Now only the government monitors need, through its FAFSA process, and, though the colleges claim their policy is not to award scholarships purely on merit, there is a lot of juggling around the fringes of that policy...