Word: nonprofits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course of testimony, panelists and witnesses also raised possibilities such as shifting responsibility for collecting on student loans, restricting aid eligibility by incorporating high school grades or scores into the need analysis formula, or expanding current work-study programs so that students could work for private as well as nonprofit employers...
Gabler arrived at the hearings with two aides from her nonprofit Educational Research Analysts organization and 600 pages of detailed objections to publishers' offerings. In a fourth-grade text by McDougal, Littell & Co., the Gablers objected to a paragraph listing beneficial qualities of drugs like insulin for diabetes on the grounds that such information "is instilling in student minds that the term drugs refers to a beneficial product." In a junior high health text by Ginn & Co., the Gablers took exception to a chapter titled "When Things go Wrong." Their demand: a positive chapter called "When Things Go Right...
...down. Though the U.S. remains one of the few industrial nations without a comprehensive national health program, upwards of 85% of all Americans are covered by medical insurance of some sort, either through the federal Medicare and Medicaid plans, which provide coverage for the elderly and the poor, through nonprofit organizations like Blue Cross/Blue Shield, or through company-sponsored plans for employees...
C.C.C.S. is a nonprofit organization sponsored by banks, loan companies, retailers and other businesses that grant credit. It has some 200 offices a11 over the U.S. and deals with about 110,000 cases a year. Its method is very simple: it makes the insolvent debtor give up all his credit cards and promise not to do any more borrowing without permission. Then it works out a survival budget that will enable the client to pay back part of his debt every month. It persuades the creditors to wait for their money and then assumes responsibility for dividing and distributing...
...tried to sell Bibles written in Spanish to Indians who spoke only Cakchiquel. He learned the language, then during the next twelve years, with no formal linguistic training, developed an alphabet that he used to write a Cakchiquel translation of the New Testament. In 1935 he co-founded the nonprofit, nonsectarian Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc., which has repeated the process for 90 previously illiterate tribes...