Word: programing
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Though Wixted stressed that the project will be limited at first to cases referred by the courts, she added that later the city's schools might send children directly to the program...
Modeled on a Scottish program, the project will operate under the 3rd District Court of Eastern Middlesex County, which includes Cambridge, Arlington, and Belmont...
...core of the program, Wixted said, will be panels of three specially trained citizens. Cases would be referred to each panel by the police and other social welfare services that currently deal with "status offenders," truants, runaways, and "incorrigibles...
Sandra A. Wixted, director of the Children's Hearings Project of the Massachusetts Advocacy Center, said last week the program is an attempt to solve family problems more efficiently, humanely and permanently than the courts...
...negative second opinions, and nearly two-thirds of them did not have surgery. Among the procedures frequently deemed unnecessary: bunion removal, hysterectomies, prostate surgery and knee operations. Judging by the experience of one union's health fund, every $1 spent for fees and administrative expenses in the program should save $2.63 in sick pay and hospital costs. Says McCarthy: "Every time a person was referred for a second opinion, the sponsoring fund saved...