Word: programing
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...effort represents the first stage of a two-part program to mark Harvard facilities with Braille signs, said Celia M. Kent of the Physical Resources Office. Kent said her office has ordered custom name plates for the main entrances to Yard classrooms and dormitories, and will install them within the next few months...
Kent said the program was suggested last year by Cara A. Dunne '92, co-chair of Advocating a Better Learning Environment (ABLE), a student group which lobbies for rights for the disabled. Dunne, one of two legally blind undergraduates at Harvard, said she worked with the Physical Resources Office last year as a paid consultant...
Just five months after Argentine President Carlos Saul Menem announced tough reforms to liberalize the national economy, his country may be on the verge of another financial collapse. After curbing inflation from a monthly rate of nearly 200% in July to 6.5% in November, Menem's program has hit several snags. Among them: the Peronist leader's failure to cut staff at any of Argentina's money-losing state enterprises and the resignations nearly three weeks ago of Central Bank President Egidio Ianella and Economy Minister Nestor Rapanelli and his deputy. The departures further weakened confidence in the economy. Argentina...
State governments, which have suffered deep cuts in health-care funding from Washington, are also taking action. With pharmaceutical costs in his state jumping as much as 18% annually since 1985, John Alquest, who oversees the $31 million Kansas Medicaid program, has developed a bidding program for six frequently used drugs, including the antibiotic cephalexin and the asthma drug theophylline. He was able to log savings of $400,000 last year. Pharmaceutical companies have lobbied the Kansas legislature to block the program, but at least a dozen other states are considering similar measures...
...growing number of hospitals have embarked on programs to make physicians better aware of the prices of different medications. Doctors at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital now order antibiotics on forms that list the most cost- effective choices. "The physician still maintains the prerogative of choosing the drug, but we're educating him or her about costs," says Dr. % Jerry Avorn, the program's director. The hospital is saving $75,000 to $100,000 a year on its $900,000 antibiotic pharmaceutical budget...