Word: programing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...thousands of runaway teenagers in New York City and other urban areas, Covenant House is the home that compassion built. Now the man who founded the nation's most successful program for runaways is himself in need of compassion. Father Bruce Ritter, 61, the energetic Franciscan who built Covenant House largely on the basis of his own charisma, has been accused by four young men of having sexual relationships with them while they were under his care...
Unfortunately for the politicians, getting away from the issue is not that simple. Though no one expects any drastic change in the program, Moynihan's proposal has focused attention on one of Washington's dirty little secrets. Rather than dealing honestly with the budgetary gap, the Government is once again borrowing against the future. When the baby-boom generation begins to retire about 20 years from now, the IOUs will have to be paid back through sharply higher taxes or still more borrowing...
...older. A 1984 federal study shows that Social Security provides at least half the household income for 62% of its beneficiaries, who also receive Medicare to cover their health-care costs. "We hear so much about Social Security being regressive," says Phil Gambino, a spokesman for the program. "Actually, the benefits are progressive...
...officials, led by Politburo member Alexander Yakovlev and Vice President Anatoli Lukyanov, to bring news of the final hours of the plenum of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. The event had been billed as a make-or-break meeting for the Soviet leader and his unprecedented program of political and economic reforms. The question now was whether Gorbachev had been able to continue his remarkable winning streak and once again prevail over entrenched party conservatives...
...objected when a private university says that it's a different community than the polity," says Richard Marius, the director of the Expository Writing program, who made one of the most forceful arguments against the Harvard guidelines at Tuesday's Faculty meeting. "I don't believe the University has it in its power to articulate anything beyond the law of the First Amendment...