Word: program
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Takaki, who heads the graduate ethnic studies program at Berkeley, said university curriculums underrepresent ethnic diversity. "We want to see our literature, our history and our culture in our curriculum," Takaki said...
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Counters Hunter: "Our program is designed to mainstream them back into society, but some kids refuse to go back to a traditional setting. They say this is the first place to tell them their career of choice isn't necessarily hairdresser." Adds Stephen Phillips, superintendent of New York City's alternative schools and programs: "If 100% of the youngsters are to get the education they are entitled to, we have to adapt to them -- go to the kids rather than expecting them to come to us. Like the addicted or the handicapped, Harvey Milk kids couldn't or wouldn...
Hewlett-Packard got the message when its Japanese partner, Yokogawa Hewlett- Packard, complained about the quality of the memory devices manufactured by the American firm. The centerpiece of Hewlett-Packard's quality program, started in 1979, is a closer relationship with its suppliers. Treating them as partners rather than free-lance sources, the company involves partsmakers in the initial design phase of its new products and gives the suppliers six-month forecasts of its needs so that the smaller companies can plan their own production. As a result, Hewlett-Packard reached its goal of increasing quality tenfold in just...
...Soviets who are complaining have a clear political bias. Virtually all of their targets are thought to be enemies of Mikhail Gorbachev's program of restructuring society, while the accusers are mostly progressives. If Gorbachev wants to remove accused officials from their posts, the growing scandal could make it easy...