Word: programed
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Today’s announcement—that Northeastern University is discontinuing its intercollegiate football program after 74 years—sent shockwaves throughout the Boston collegiate football community. Boston University terminated its football program in 1997, and now, with Northeastern dropping its program, the city of Boston is left with just two Division I college football teams: Boston College and Harvard...
Like Boston University, Northeastern officials cited financial reasons for pulling the plug on the program and stressed that the cut will financially benefit some of its stronger programs...
Onie, the other honoree, was recognized for her work with Project HEALTH, a program she co-founded as a Harvard sophomore to help low-income families address various factors which contribute to poor health...
...minority- and women-owned firms in fiscal 2008, say officials. "It's a top priority of the President's, and we've worked very hard to create those opportunities," says David Hinson, director of the Commerce Department's Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA). Hinson points to the outreach program the MBDA and the Small Business Administration have created to "put boots on the ground" and make contract procurement easier for DBEs. He also suggests it's "a little early to draw conclusions" about the stimulus' level of minority participation...
...take Junior Eurovision seriously. Very seriously. Eastern European nations have won four out of the past five competitions, which isn't particularly hard when the vast majority of the performers come from that part of the world. Steve De Coninck-De Boeck, the founder of Belgium's Junior Eurovision program, believes the show is a barometer of the east's promise. "A lot of people don't see the evolution in Eastern Europe," he says. "When you're within Junior Eurovision, you see it every year. Their self-confidence is growing. They're becoming richer. And they usually...