Word: program
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Several women's college administrators formed the coalition five years ago to lobby for the interests of women's colleges and to act as a liaison for the 67 schools that pay for representation. A recent WCC effort promoted the educational equity act, an affirmative action program under the Office of Education...
...Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise, Pritikin with McGrady...
...Crime Stoppers' program is a dramatic example of what a citizens group can do to fight crime. Another citizens crime commission, in Wichita, is run like an FBI cover operation. It is headed by former G-Man Maurice ("Corky") Corcoran, 60, who likes making "a stakeout" and boasts of nipping a bingo operation and an abortion ring. But the main work of the 24 citizens commissions around the country is to be watchdogs. Privately supported, mostly with business contributions, the groups have professional staffs ranging from 19 in Chicago to one in Saginaw, Mich. They have no power...
...commission has been active for 60 years. Founded amidst a public outcry over daylight murder and robbery, it has been a strong lobby for improving the criminal justice system in Illinois. It has successfully pushed for more judges in the criminal courts, and it has developed a criminal identification program to help judges decide when to grant bail. But the commission's chief asset is information, particularly about organized crime. In the late '60s, it published a Hood's Who, a directory of Mob leaders and their business fronts, complete with home addresses. Now it profiles...
With the proper government encouragement, solar energy and conservation could "provide" two-thirds of the United States' increased energy demand in the late 1980s. Without such a program, the Department of Energy estimates oil imports could increase by as much as half. Clearly, the Energy Project's recommendations deserve a fair chance in the current energy debate and in Washington. As this book shows, not all good ideas come from California. Some come from just across the Charles...