Word: programming
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...presidential mandate, the commission also listed a number of steps that it said should be taken to diminish campus unrest. Among the commission's recommendations: removal from the campus of as much defense-related research as possible; replacement of the ROTC with an off-campus training program unrelated to campus life; added riot-control training for National Guardsmen and a policy limiting weapons in campus flare-ups to specially trained anti-sniper units; the preparation of contingency plans by college administrators who may face disorders...
Hailed as the most innovative domestic idea to emerge from the White House so far, the Family Assistance Program (FAP) passed the House easily, 243 to 155. It has been supported by such diverse interests as the A.F.L.-C.l.O. and the National Association of Manufacturers. Yet the plan now has little chance of surviving critical wounds inflicted during the 24 weeks it has been before the Senate Finance Committee. Committee members found the Administration proposal had flaws of its own and would entail a large expenditure increase; FAP would add $4.4 billion to the present $4 billion federal share...
...Daniel Patrick Moynihan, FAP would provide a guaranteed minimum income of $1,600 annually to every welfare family of four. It would eliminate the harsh proviso of many state laws that cuts off aid to a mother and her children if the father returns to live with them. The program would initially add an estimated 12 million poor people to welfare rolls, which now carry 11.6 million. But through provisions for day-care centers for the children of working mothers and requirements that able-bodied recipients must either work or undergo job training, "workfare" could also direct millions toward self...
...always doing nice things for people. Take freshmen. When the current junior and senior classes were freshmen, most of the junk mail they received from Harvard before they arrived in Cambridge was invitations to join the various branches of ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corps, a government-sponsored military training program which used to be offered for course credit at this University; the remains of its former headquarters can be observed up Francis Avenue, along with the remains of the Harvard Faculty still residing in Cambridge...
...merely the newest of his absurd philosophical stances. Judging by the construction of the rest of the work, it would seem, rather, that Heinlein's mind- one of the great story-telling minds of our times, my friends- has snapped, and is now like a computer with a faulty program, spinning furiously in circles...