Word: legal-aid
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...reasons why the outsider cannot appreciate what has really happened. I spent one day with my wife doing something that I could not have gotten from the literature: seeing the poverty program in action in a big city. What I saw was tremendously important. I visited a legal-aid agencyan implementation of one of the proposals I made 26 years agoand I met an enthusiastic young lawyer there. His only trouble was that the program was too small...
...breach those barriers. With funds from foundations, the Office of Economic Opportunity and the U.S. Department of Labor, she established the privately run Women's Talent Corps, which trained poor women for paraprofessional jobs in New York City's public schools, hospitals, day-care centers and legal-aid agencies. The Talent Corps eventually became the two-year College for Human Services, which now has more than 650 applicants. High school diplomas are not required for admission. Instead, C.H.S. tests applicants for math and reading ability-and accepts only those who show exceptional motivation...
...shows, four are youth-oriented. The Young Rebels, a one-hour drama set in Revolutionary Pennsylvania, focuses on three young members of a Yankee guerrilla band. The Young Lawyers deals with law students and a legal-aid society. In Dial Hot Line. Psychiatrist Vince Edwards (Dr. Ben Casey) runs a telephone service set up by a metropolitan hospital to deal with troubled teens who have no one else to talk to. The Partridge Family is a situation-comedy series dealing with a rock group headed by the mother of the family (shades of The Cowsills...
...investigator, Nikolai Danilov, left his work on the island of Sakhalin and took a job as a legal-aid consultant in a Leningrad law office. He was arrested and confined in a special insane asylum for political offenders, where he is being "treated" with insulin shock...
...questions - simple, single questions, one at a time, in order to develop facts in evidence either in interviewing a witness or examining him in a courtroom." As an example of a favorable trend, Burger praised the growing number of schools that permit their students to spend time on legal-aid and public-defender programs...