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Nixon's Family Assistance Plan (FAP). Pat Moynihan's brainchild, is at least a step away from the old dependency relationship of client-to-department. FAP would provide a minimum income ($1600 rock-bottom) for everyone. It does not allow nearly enough money. But the concept of a minimum life sustenance for everyone would help strip away the stigma of welfare...
...really remarkable feature of Avižienis' brainchild is a specially gifted unit dubbed TARP (for Test And Repair Processor). Like a zealous office manager always peering over the shoulders of his clerks, TARP can almost instantly spot errors, determine who has made them, and take steps to discipline or replace the wrongdoer. It constantly monitors the specially coded messages -or interoffice memos, as Avižienis calls them-that pass between the units, and immediately reacts to deviations from normal in the computer chatter. "It's as if a person were to start mispronouncing or slurring words...
Since then, he has concentrated on involving the Medical School in the University as well as the outside community. Last fall, his brainchild, the Haryard Community Health Plan, was instituted for the first time, replete with pre-payment plans and group practices...
...show was the brainchild of an Eliot House junior, John Misha Petkevich, and with the help of the Jimmy Fund and Eliot House, it has become a major event in the national skating picture and in Jimmy Fund fundraising...
Started after the Columbia University uprising in 1968, University Centers for Rational Alternatives is the brainchild of Sidney Hook, noted spokesman on university issues...