Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President, H. D. Doan, and Motorola's Chairman, Robert W. Galvin--are responding to serious questions and viewpoints posed by students about business and its role in our changing society ... and from their perspective as heads of major corporations are exchanging views through means of a campus / corporate Dialogue Program on specific issues raised by leading student spokesmen...
...Radcliffe should not pursue its current program of dormitory expansion and renovation without expressly providing for the possibility of coeducational occupancy in the future...
Possible Biases. To some extent, the program's good showing may reflect the fact that the patients are older than the average addict and more likely to be motivated to seek a better way of life. Then too, by design, all of them are volunteers. The sample is not exactly representative: it contains proportionately more whites (48% v. 25% among addicts generally), with 33% Negroes and 18% Puerto Ricans. Even with allowances for bias, the results are so good that an impartial study group set up at Columbia University calls them "most encouraging" and recommends expansion of the program...
Crime Cut. The program has now been under way for five years, and Drs. Dole and Nyswander report in the A.M.A. Journal that in the first four of those years: "The number of criminal addicts who have been rehabilitated is enough to empty a moderate-sized jail." More than a thousand other addicts are now waiting for the treatment. Of the first 723 male patients, only 15% were employed before treatment. Within three to six months, the proportion rose to 53% at work or in school, and now hovers near 70%. An additional 20%, though not employed, are rated...
...standard treatment program begins with four to six weeks in an unlocked hospital ward, where the methadone dosage is built up, in twice-daily installments, to the blockade level. After that, the patients are discharged but required to report to a clinic regularly for at least a year-daily at first, later tapering off to once a week if they stay clean. "Clean" means that their urine samples reveal no heroin on analysis. On these visits, patients are required to drink a full dose of methadone to show that they have been taking it at home and have retained their...