Word: programer
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Both approaches are being tried around the country. In locations from San Francisco to New York's East Harlem, parents are free to shop around for what they judge to be the best public school in the district. Minnesota goes further: it is phasing in a program that by 1990 will allow students to attend virtually any public school in the state so long as the move does not harm desegregation efforts. Earlier this year, Arkansas, Iowa, Ohio and Nebraska adopted similar plans; eleven other states are moving toward choice. But it is unclear how many families will take advantage...
...21st century the U.S. work force will need fewer strong backs and more strong minds. To prepare for that future, local businesses are pairing up with local schools to provide students with training and jobs. Since 1974 St. Louis County has had a program, now expanded to Kansas City, that gives high school seniors two hours of instruction each day at area work sites. About half the participating students, who this year number 100, get jobs after graduation; most of the rest go on to college. California has had a similar program since 1983 that involves some 35,000 students...
...inspector general Paul Adams had repeatedly warned his boss, Secretary Samuel Pierce, about the problems and had been repeatedly ignored. Last week the Government Accounting Office reported that the losses in just one HUD program, the Federal Housing Administration, totaled $4.2 billion -- five - times the amount the Reagan Administration had conceded. That bill lands on top of the $300 billion or so needed to rescue the savings and loan industry -- another problem that Washington chose to overlook while the losses mounted...
...confusion is shared by TV journalists, who are trying to locate their ethical bearings in this brave new world. At one extreme are the traditionalists, who insist that a staged scene of any kind is inappropriate on a news program, which depends for its credibility on presenting the truth and nothing but. On the other side are a new generation of TV news producers, under pressure from network bosses to come up with programs that will draw prime-time-size audiences. Re-enactments, the proponents argue, if carefully used and clearly labeled, can help impart information and expand the kinds...
...million in food and economic assistance to both countries pledged earlier by President George Bush. Last week, addressing the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, Bush declared that "we must do more." In the case of Poland, the Administration is planning to increase its assistance program. Though the White House offered few details about what it called a "new package of support" for Poland, aides hinted that a half-billion dollars' worth of credits and loans would be announced this week. Officials said it would be channeled through agencies, like the IMF, that monitor its effects...