Word: furlough
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...Expanded prison furlough programs to permit prisoners to keep up family ties or hold part-time jobs outside. -1mproved prison industries to increase prisoners' vocational aptitudes. -1ntegration of local jails into state correctional systems...
...first saw the U.S. at the age of seven, when his parents came home on furlough. At 15, after several months' wandering around Europe, he returned to attend Hotchkiss. He was one of the most traveled but shiest boys...
...shutdown, idling 12,000 employees in Grand Rapids, Milwaukee and Kenosha, Wis. General Motors has laid off 4,760 people at six assembly plants. Ford, with 30,000 employees already working a week shortened to as little as three days, last week trimmed production further and announced it will furlough 2,000. Chrysler scheduled a week's shutdown for two plants next week...
Yale's program, in contrast to existing foreign study programs, calls for a virtual furlough from academic discipline. In contrast to Harvard's leave of absence, it integrates that furlough with courses and tutorial when the student returns. It "consciously breaks the sequence of testable learning," says President Brewster, "not under the shadow of opprobrium or for a fancy 'grand tour' but as part of a programmed educational pattern which splices experience with learning." The essential feature of Yale's program is neither its $300,000 nor its provision for a year in underdeveloped areas. It is rather than...
...individual Governors to contribute troops and supplies only as they felt inclined. The Governors of Georgia and North Carolina particularly were obstructive to a degree that, in a more centralized nation, would have been treason. Governor Joseph E. Brown of Georgia pettishly sent the whole state militia on furlough at one crucial point in 1864. Governor Zebulon Vance of North Carolina hoarded huge quantities of military supplies. Strode observes that "the President must have reflected somewhat bitterly what a difference these hoarded commodities would have made to Lee's men during the grueling siege of Petersburg...