Word: outreach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...income Boston residents struggling to prepare their tax returns are now receiving additional aid thanks to a new community outreach program launched last week by six Harvard Business School students...
...reverence, a purified measure of the poison he delivered. Differences in interpretation are not a matter of nuance, unless differing over a factor of a million is quibbling. That the planners for Suslov's funeral, a host of apparatchnik pressmen, and perhaps an entire popuation, could stifle the outreach of history with such an air of unconcern says something about human nature, and our ability to adapt to the needs of whatever sort of politics happen to entrap...
...valuable service, refuting the common attitude that it is "just a waste of the taxpayers' money." Unlike Third Nail, which is open to anyone with a need, many centers get accredited for Blue Cross and Blue Shield payments, enabling them to charge high weekly fees. Through its Outreach program, the project provides free out-patient drug counseling worth $150,000 in working hours...
...back porch, throwing lighted matches into a pail. Another has not been out of his house in ten years: a literal hostage to the war that goes banging on in his own mind. Robert Moore, 32, spent eight years hiding at home, before he joined a VA-supported outreach center in Queens. There, he and two other veterans work as a team to locate similar cases of radical withdrawal ?men hunkered down in their little psychic tunnels, like Viet Cong staying safe from all that American rolling thunder...
...Outreach counseling centers have been particularly helpful in giving guidance to veterans still overcome by combat memories and alienation. The center in Atlanta has counseled 1,500 veterans in 14 months. One veteran stopped by to talk on his way to commit an armed robbery. He was dissuaded. Another, Daniel Parker, 30, tries to exorcise his nightmares. Sometimes when he sees his three children sleeping, he flashes back to the day his patrol swept a village. Trained to shoot at anything that moved, he fired at a basket. When he turned it over, he found three dead babies. After being...