Word: programed
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While he was at Harvard during the 1950's, Surrey headed the International Program in Taxation, which trained about 20 foreign tax officers each year. With a special interest in the effect of tax laws on underdeveloped countries, Surrey served on the American Tax Mission to Japan in 1949 and 1950. He later drafted the Excise Tax of Puerto Rico while acting as a consultant to the Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico...
...left have yet been willing to admit it, is that the New Left today is a mess. It is a morass of slogans and apocalyptic visions, full of desperation and despair. It is a movement without ideology, without anything that can be called strategy, and without a coherent program for social or economic change...
...class will bring the total number of Sloan Fellows who have gone through the program to more than, 800, since its inception in 1931. Formerly only business and industry supplied promising and carefully-screened candidates--and profited from their return to key positions, after the intensive one-year mid-career program--but now increasing numbers of Sloan Fellows are appointed from the fields of educational administration, hospital administration, government, and urban affairs. Dr. Gil said that this rising input of managerial talent from the Sloan school, feeding into the public sector, reflects concern at the School with problem identification, problem...
...addition, the term "successful" was applied only to programs that produced pupil gains in language or numerical skills. If, for example, a program succeeded in improving pupil attitudes but failed in academics during the observation period, it was considered to be unsuccessful...
Only compensatory programs whose directors had measured achievement through standardized tests were included in the AIR study. Burt an improvement in achievement scores was not sufficient to identify a successful program. The gain had to exceed that made by a control group over the same time period or to exceed national norms...