Word: approaches
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...Wedtech scandal has prompted some congressional interest in reform legislation. Massachusetts Democrat Nicholas Mavroules, who chairs a House small-business subcommittee, is championing a bill that would bar any political appointee from helping select minority contractors or managing the program. A more controversial approach, favored by Massachusetts Republican Congressman Silvio Conte, would require minority contractors to participate in competitive bidding and eliminate the SBA's awkward role as the middleman between federal agencies and minority businesses...
...where 750 AIDS cases had been reported by last month, the government last November allocated $32 million to produce a blitz of warnings and advice. Billboards were erected across the country that read AIDS: DON'T DIE OF IGNORANCE. Now, however, the London government has begun to question its approach. A recent study has concluded that the campaign needlessly raised general anxieties about AIDS but missed those individuals in population groups at high risk. Later this month the British government will launch another effort aimed at drug users...
...most of the big ways, the approach of the century mark has left him remarkably unaffected. True, he uses a hearing aid and walks with a cane, and a bad leg has forced him to give up dancing the rumba. But it is also true that he still golfs at his winter home in Miami Beach, swims at his summer home in New York's Catskill Mountains and, most important, has unquenchable energy and enthusiasm for his first love: the theater...
...members of the VCR generation, these video chronicles make an alluring supplement to the traditional hardbound yearbook. Some schools take a do-it- yourself approach; all that is needed is some video equipment and a few students willing to put in the time and effort. Others opt for outside video firms like Copy Cat Video, a St. Louis-based company that Wilson runs with her partner Claudia Walters. Typically, such video entrepreneurs contract with students at the school to tape certain big events during the year, as well as scenes of everyday school life and, in some cases, individual student...
FOOTNOTE: *The only known videotape of Rust's approach and landing, shot by an unidentified British tourist, was obtained by NBC News, which bought worldwide distribution rights. The Soviets have made no attempt to obtain the tape, and it was not until last week that Soviet print media began admitting that the plane had made it all the way to Red Square...