Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five, pondered the legal, religious and medical issues. Last week he issued a 642-page document in which he stopped short of ruling that the Hyde Amendment violated the constitutional separation of church and state. But he reasoned that by exempting medically necessary abortions from the comprehensive Medicaid program, the Government violated at least two constitutional guarantees: the Fifth Amendment rights of religious freedom and individual liberty. Dooling called a woman's freedom to terminate her pregnancy for health reasons, "nearly allied to her right to be," a matter "of moral judgment and ultimately religious in origin...
Reed and his team are part of the Veterans Administration's new Operation Outreach. Started on Oct. 1, the program now has teams working out of about 40 storefronts and operating on a first-year budget of $9.9 million. By next year the service is scheduled to expand to 86 teams capable of reaching some 100,000 Viet Nam vets at an annual cost of $13.9 million. The VA got the idea from a similar counseling service provided through 65 centers by the private Disabled American Veterans Organization...
...credit program is listed in the catalogues of Boston University, Cornell University, the College of Charleston, Colgate, American University and the University of Pennsylvania. At $3,700, the tuition is roughly equivalent to a semester's tuition at many private colleges...
Though the rough and tumble of the sea leads some students to reject careers in marine science, approximately half of the program's 1,100 alumni say they are pursuing related careers-including maritime law, environmental planning, oceanography. A few have even gone to work as yachting and fishing-boat crew...
Frequently students tell him that the program has changed them deeply. Paul McDowell, who raced small sailboats before his Westward voyage, says the semester has changed his view of the oceans: "As a racer, I've always tried to get from one place to another across the sea as fast as I could. But aboard Westward we've learned how to work with the sea. I have learned about what lives in the sea, how we affect the sea. Sailing isn't just competitive now." Explains Chief Scientist Donald Drost, 36: "We're all interested...