Word: programed
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Romney has been striving to introduce reforms that will cut costs and stimulate efficiency. His most ambitious effort, started earlier this month, is an attempt to reorganize both the Government's housing program and the industry that serves it. He insists that his plan can add between 250,000 and 350,000 units a year to U.S. housing starts, which are limping along at an annual rate of 1,500,000 and have been declining for three months. Named Operation Breakthrough, the plan calls for states and cities to pool their separate, federally subsidized projects into large-scale "mass...
Lane is prepared to lend $15 million in the poor neighborhoods and spend $1,000,000 a year in cleanup campaigns. He also intends to expand his program far beyond that by seeking such large depositors as the Ford Foundation and converting their money into high-risk loans. "Lowincome people need money," says Lane, "and the banks have got to give it to them...
Instead of five administrators, there will now be three students and three faculty members serving on the Judicial Review Board, with John A. Seiler, assistant dean for the MBA program, as chairman...
When the Dovells created the Bristol Stomp in the late fifties, they probably never anticipated the rapidity with which it was to vanish from the popular scene. Likewise, those who started the freshman intramural program at Harvard were probably of the opinion that it would last forever and ever. But if the participation continues to grow at its present negative rate, soon there will be no organized program of intramurals for first-year students...
...problem is that there are just not that many people who are eager enough to go out to play some semi-organized sport. Mike Sherman, athletic secretary of champion Greenough, suggested that proctors ought to show more concern with the program and encourage people to participate, as well as helping out the athletic secretaries. A big factor, Sherman said, was the persistence of the athletic secretary. In Sherman's case, this persistence borders on fanaticism, and a colleague of his called him "the Vince Lombardi of freshman intramurals." Way to go, Mike...