Word: programming
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Have services, will travel. Even if social services are available, many homeless people cannot or will not use them. So more and more cities are mobilizing their resources. Food vans carry soup and sandwiches to the bridges and parks. Boston's Health Care for the Homeless program sends nurses out knocking on doors in family shelters, offering parents and children preventive health care...
...handed response to the rebellion was expected to strengthen his political position and give him a fresh chance to deal forcefully with his faltering economy. Despite ambitious plans for slimming the public sector and selling off money-losing state companies, Menem can claim credit for few accomplishments. His privatization program is bogged down, and inflation could reach...
...about which stage of sleep I was approaching," she says. "I was actually watching myself trying to doze off." Joan Menschenfreund, who coordinated the story's photography, tries to cure occasional sleeplessness by watching TV. She's careful to pick soporific fare: "I sometimes get so involved in the program that I'm more wide awake than ever." And some think that if they absolutely, positively can't sleep, then they might as well get some work done. Reporter-researcher Linda Williams pays bills in the wee hours and vacuums her apartment (poor neighbors). Steve Hart, who designed the accompanying...
Ethnicity is in at the San Francisco fire department these days. The reason: fears that a program to promote minorities will hold back those classified as Caucasian. City officials report a wave of petitioners claiming long-lost ethnic identities. One 16-year veteran, previously listed as Italian, documented Spanish ancestry to qualify as Hispanic. Some minority fire fighters, meanwhile, are complaining that the bureaucracy has changed their classifications to "white." San Francisco's civil service commission says it will consider publicizing ethnic classifications so employees can challenge colleagues suspected of making shady heritage claims...
...fellowship program was created in 1972 as the Black Prize Fellowship and expanded later in the 1970s to include other minorities, Blackman said...