Word: programed
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Thank you for portraying our boss, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, as the dignified global statesman that he is [WORLD, Sept. 4]. I and many of my colleagues had the honor to witness his unique qualities firsthand last April when he addressed the World Food Program headquarters staff in Rome. It is inspiring to know that such a compassionate and talented individual heads the U.N. family of nations. JUDITH ANNE THIMKE World Food Program Managua...
Your item on new television shows [FALL PREVIEW, Sept. 4] cited Bette Midler's program Bette as the one that many advertisers give the best odds for success. Bette as a sitcom queen? I don't think so. She's about as relevant to modern life as Spiro Agnew gags. I'm unplugging my TV now. Call me when her show has been canceled. SACHA A. HOWELLS Los Angeles
...Uninsured kids have become campaign props in this year's presidential contest. So far, most of the political debate on the issue has focused on the governor's handling of the federal Children's Health Insurance Program, with Bush taking credit for extending this benefit to 423,000 low-income children, and Democrats slamming him for a slow and halfhearted start-up of the plan. But citing CHIP's performance as evidence that Bush is ignoring child health is not really convincing, since 39 other states have done just as badly as Texas in using federal funds allotted to them...
...statutory deadline and received a response from federal officials, who asked the usual large number of questions. But instead of a prompt follow-up, Bush's regulators waited nearly a year to submit a revised version. Another volley of paperwork continued until August 1997, when Congress passed the CHIP program, overtaking the state plan. But even then, Bush took his time to start up CHIP, although the program requires less of a state contribution than Medicaid (25 percent versus 40 percent). When CHIP finally did start, last May, a total of five years had passed since the legislature first attempted...
...dropped from welfare rolls. And under pressure from Bush allies running the appropriations committees, Texas legislators accepted projections of a steep decline in patient demand for Medicaid. Bush succeeded in passing another tax cut, this one amounting to $1.7 billion. But the Medicaid forecasts proved overly rosy, leaving the program with a $400 million deficit. The state health department is looking for ways to offset it. One idea is to take more than $17 million from hard-pressed programs for disabled children...