Word: programming
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Almost from its inception in 1950, the program giving federal aid to "impacted districts"-the awkward bureaucratic term for school systems serving large numbers of federal employees' children-has been the subject of dispute. Each President since Dwight Eisenhower has tried to reform the subsidy scheme or reduce it. Each failed. The basic inequity is that most of the money goes to areas where the Government personnel live in the community and pay real estate tax, rather than to needier towns where the employees live tax-free on Government installations. But the districts of 385 U.S. Representatives benefit from...
...threatening to charge tuition. Langdon, N.D., the future site of an anti-ballistic missile installation, has said that it will bar servicemen's children from its schools unless Washington fully defrays local expense for their education. Finally, HEW said that it has now developed a program of reform that it will submit to Congress some time this year...
...According to Tass, Indian students have asked their Soviet friends to send them seedlings from Ulyanovsk because "they want to grow trees from the motherland of Lenin." He was the subject of an "international" meeting in Bamako, Mali, and of a quiz show on Radio Sierra Leone. A program called Lenin Soirées is reported to be "greatly popular with televiewers in Brazzaville," while in Paris, "thousands of excursionists" have visited the apartment on Rue Marie-Rose where Lenin once lived. Tass failed to note, however, that the Paris city council has just churlishly refused to rename the street...
...remedy for the country's ills, Sakharov proposed a 14-point program of gradual democratization. It would begin with such measures as the accessibility of information about the state, the sale of foreign books and periodicals, and the creation of a public opinion institute. Eventually his program would lead to amnesty for political prisoners, reform of legal and educational systems, and direct elections offering a choice of candidates for party and state posts. Sakharov warned that unless the Soviet Union moves in this direction, it will decline to a second-class power. "Tightening the screws," he wrote, will...
...more rigorous standard used when adults are prosecuted. Burger's dissent, joined by Justice Stewart (Justice Hugo Black dissented on other grounds), argued that no constitutional mandate forced the court to upset state procedures. Burger expressed fear that the decision would "spell the end of a generously conceived program of compassionate treatment...