Word: programming
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...felt to Ketter like Christmas in April, that's because it was. Each spring the Washington-based Christmas in April program coordinates thousands of volunteers in 50 cities and towns from Vermont to California in renovating more than a thousand homes that are near collapse. Better to rebuild old dwellings, they figure, than to build new homeless shelters. In one day of hard work the 1,000 Hartsville volunteers used 400 gal. of paint, 800 lbs. of nails, 7,000 ft. of lumber, 5,000 squares of shingles and 200 bags of cement, all paid for by local donations with...
Street Beat sees about 50 people each night. Since the program started in 1988, workers have made 7,000 face-to-face contacts with more than 1,000 teenagers. They have distributed 100,000 condoms along with thousands of dignity packs. "Planned Parenthood realized there was a population out there of homeless, runaway, throwaway youths who are totally forgotten," says Liz Russo, 28, Street Beat program director. "A lot of them haven't chosen to be there, and they are entitled to a whole range of services that they are not aware of. It's important that they get these...
Those who are still on the streets receive a basic level of support they once lacked. The workers are hosts of a Friday lunch program in their office. There they serve pizza and soft drinks, let the kids talk about their lives, and screen Bambi or the latest Schwarzenegger video on the office VCR. To promote AIDS prevention, they distribute Knightvision, a multicolor, action- packed comic book that tells the story of teenagers who face problems similar to those dealt with by the readers. There are also well-illustrated directions on cleaning hypodermic needles and using contraceptives...
...Persian Gulf. Last week Vice Admiral Richard C. Gentz, head of the Naval Air Systems Command, became another casualty. He was sacked because he was in charge of an oversight system that failed to alert the Pentagon to problems in the Navy's A-12 attack-bomber program. That led Cheney to assure Congress in April that the plane was on schedule and on budget. In fact, the development turned out to be 18 months behind and $1.3 billion over its estimated cost of $4.38 billion...
...Avenger, a carrier-based plane that will use stealth technology, were censured. A Navy report accused the Avenger's developers, McDonnell Douglas ! and General Dynamics, of falling behind on the aircraft and concealing this from the Navy. The report also blamed the excessive secrecy surrounding the A- 12 program for the failure of high-level Pentagon officials to spot flaws sooner in the contractors' rosy estimates...