Word: program
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been accepted to fly aboard the Space Shuttle this October as a payload specialist."I'm ready for another adventure into the unknown," said Glenn. "It's extraordinary," says Jeffrey Kluger, TIME's space writer and author of Lost Moon. "He's the grand old man of the space program...
...City Council hired CPD Commissioner Ronnie Watson, a 33-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, in part to further strengthen the community policing program...
...staff has demonstrated some high quality paranoia in its position on the early action program, which can only be predicated upon the unsubstantiated claim that the admissions office has changed its overall demographic considerations--ethnic, racial, geographic, financial, etc.--while determining Harvard's undergraduate classes. If 5 percent of the class of 2002 is black come May, then we will have a problem...
...laundry. This is Patton leading the Third Army. This is Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier. Disrupt his fantasy at your peril. "There is a real illusion of anonymity combined with potency because you have a machine you can command," says Jack Levin, a sociologist at Northeastern University's Program for the Study of Violence. "Top it off with the stress of work and people perhaps feeling insecure there, or with troubles at home, and it can make for a dangerous combination...
...takes more than conventional driver's ed." He advocates teaching "emotional intelligence" as part of any thorough driver training: how to "deal with hostility expressed by drivers" and "how to be accepting of diversity and how to accommodate it." He calls for a new driver's ed program from kindergarten on--to teach "a spirit of cooperation rather than competition"--and grass-roots organizations called Quality Driving Circles. These, he told a radio station, would be "small groups of people meeting regularly together to discuss their driving problems and help one another do driving-personality makeovers...