Word: programming
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...carry only a 16-man squad at home, pike says he will keep everybody who can meet minimum requirements--"good swimming skills and a knowledge of the game." The coach adds that he will also encourage women to try out for the squad and will emphasize the women's program in the spring...
While the President put the final touches on his program, some rebellious Senators moved forward with their own plans. Led by Louisiana's Russell Long, the Senate Finance Committee last week approved a $39 billion tax cut. Under the Constitution, all tax legislation must originate in the House, but the adept Senators attached the tax cut to a minor House-passed bill that would allow the Foundry United Methodist Church of Washington, D.C., to import six bells duty free...
...work has a therapeutic effect," says Ed Fox, head of Colorado's prison industry program. At the simplest level, it reduces boredom, and hence its byproduct, violence. Adds Rodney Page, wood products manager at Thomaston...
...future success of such projects depends in part on Washington. A major impetus has come from Free Venture, a program financed in seven states by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA). Now LEAA may fall victim to congressional budget cutting. Meantime Congress has at least directed LEAA to select seven test projects whose prison industries would be allowed to market their products beyond state lines. Sponsors hope this experiment will further the trend of private companies' subcontracting work to prison shops...
...mixed one. The typical small town is free of the city's unruly ambience but not of its nagging problems. Small towns, just like the cities, struggle constantly with tight budgets and pressing needs that keep rising faster than revenues. "In little bitty towns," says Frederic Cooper, program manager of the Mississippi Institute for Small Towns, "the entire budget might go to pay the policeman and the light bill at the town hall." Downtown decay is common place in small town America, as are shortages of housing, medical service, diversions for the young and suitable settings for the lonely...