Word: programing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...legacy of too many cheeseburgers and Fritos from the Capitol basement takeout. But that has not prevented him from bonding with best-selling author Dr. Dean Ornish, who wrote Love and Survival: 8 Pathways to Intimacy and Health and Eat More, Weigh Less: Dr. Dean Ornish's Life Choice Program for Losing Weight Safely While Eating Abundantly...
...that insurance for the poor and near poor. With its bipartisan cachet, the Breaux-Frist bill is likely to become the big starting point for a fiery debate, particularly since next year the Senate Finance Committee plans to take up comprehensive Medicare reform for the first time since the program was introduced in 1965. But even Breaux concedes his solution will have a difficult journey becoming law: many of his fellow Democrats will want to keep prescription drugs alive as an issue...
...that it may be too cumbersome and too complex for future conflicts. The service is weighing replacing the mammoth 70-ton M1 tank with lighter--perhaps even wheeled--vehicles. It is considering the possibility of cutting production of its $48 billion fleet of nearly 1,300 Comanche helicopters, a program conceived a generation ago to battle the Soviet military. And it is thinking of slashing by more than half its $22 billion purchase of 1,100 Crusader self-propelled howitzers (which weigh 110 tons each, with a supply vehicle). But despite these potential cutbacks, the momentum of previous appropriations will...
...example, in Asia the CTBT would make it harder for North Korea to advance a nuclear-weapons program or for China to develop the technology required to place multiple warheads atop a single mobile missile. The congressional committee investigating potential Chinese espionage concluded that it would be more difficult for Beijing to exploit secrets it may have acquired from the U.S. if it can't conduct nuclear tests...
Awakenings, with 12 chapters in the New York City area, is a program aimed at "robust responders"--medical jargon for high-functioning individuals. Founder Ken Steele, who for 32 years wandered across America homeless and schizophrenic, feels that the most formidable task for the mentally ill is overcoming the social stigma. "The public's synonym for us is still psycho," he says. "We are feared and misunderstood." Partly to counter this, individuals with mental illness call themselves "consumers"--an emotionally neutral word meant to suggest people who consume medications and services associated with psychiatric disability. A voting effort, for example...