The Christian Science Monitor reports that " Counterinsurgency efforts focus on better grasping and meeting local needs " in Afghanistan, under the Human Terrain System ( HTS ) program ; in addition, HTS teams are working with the US military in Iraq.

Botswana is one of the 15 focus countries for PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, and has received more than $ 230 million since the program began in January 2004 through September 2007.

The pop science TV program MythBusters attempted to model Archimedes ' feat by using mirrors to ignite a small wooden boat covered with tar, with only partial success — they found it too difficult to focus light from their hand-held mirrors onto a point small enough to ignite the boat.

Kalimantan was the focus for an intense transmigration program that financed the relocation of poor landless families from Java, Madura, and Bali.

In a jazz program, these courses focus on the different eras of jazz history.

The Explorer program was transferred to NASA, which continued to use the name for an ongoing series of relatively small space missions, typically an artificial satellite with a science focus.

The three areas of focus for USAID / Guatemala's program are modeled after the Millennium Challenge Account areas — ruling justly, economic freedom, and investing in people.

Their research focus is Mars Analogue Research, e. g. the AustroMars mission with roughly 130 volunteers supporting a mission simulation at the Mars Desert Research Station ( MDRS ) and the ongoing PolAres multi-year research program which encompass the development of a Mars analogue rover system ans a novel spacesuit prototype dubbed " Aouda. X ", culminating in an arctic expedition in 2011.

Norsk Kundebarometer ( NKB ) () is a research program arranged at BI, with a focus on relations between customers and businesses.

Open source criteria focuses on the availability of the source code and the ability to modify and share it, while Free software focus on the users freedom to use the program, to modify it, and to share it.

Bismarck's program centered squarely on insurance programs designed to increase productivity, and focus the political attentions of German workers on supporting the Junker's government.

The full-time, four-year undergraduate program is classified as " more selective, lower transfer-in " and has an arts and sciences focus with high graduate student coexistence.

Such negative feelings and attitudes may need to be a major focus of a treatment program.

After the first 20 years of exploration, focus shifted from one-off flights to renewable hardware, such as the Space Shuttle program, and from competition to cooperation as with the International Space Station ( ISS ).

Tsipis, " Third-Generation Nuclear Weapons ," < cite > SIPRI Yearbook of World Armaments and Disarmament 1985 </ cite > ( University Press, 1985 ).</ ref > Such critics often cite the X-ray laser system as being the primary focus of SDI, with its apparent failure being a main reason to oppose the program.

In the College of Arts and Sciences, Seattle University's graduate program in psychology is notable as one of the few schools in the country to focus on existential phenomenology as a therapeutic method.

* The U. S. space program should focus on manned exploration of Mars ( as opposed to unmanned problems, or manned exploration of low earth orbit ), with the Moon as a stepping stone.

Disgusted by the street crime and prostitution that he witnesses through the city, Travis finds a focus for his frustration and begins a program of intense physical training.

The program formally commenced in 1972, although the concept had been explored since the late 1960s, and was the sole focus of NASA's manned operations after the final Apollo and Skylab flights in the mid-1970s.

As of March 2012, the destination for EM-3 and immediate destination focus for this new program is still in-flux.

Students in MBA programs have the option of taking general business courses throughout the program or can select an area of concentration and focus approximately one-fourth of their studies in this subject.

In 1995, the name of the program was changed to its current version, and the focus of the course shifted toward the strategic level of war.

In Canada, the Canadian Network for Respiratory Care administers two certifications for the specialization as Respiratory Therapist Asthma Educator, the Certified Asthma Educator ( CAE ) ( preferred by practitioners with a pediatric focus ) and the Certified Respiratory Educator ( CRE ), which comprises the CAE program with additional training in COPD.

The school's primary focus is undergraduate education, though there is a small graduate program for master's degree students.

Another consequence of JSP's focus on data streams is that it creates program designs with a very different structure to the kind created by the stepwise refinement methods of Wirth and Dijkstra.

This group is secularist and their program tends to be technological.

Next I refer to our program in space exploration, which is often mistakenly supposed to be an integral part of defense research and development.

In the latter research program, information is available for 2,758 Cornell students surveyed in 1950 and for 1,571 students surveyed in 1952.

The intensive treatment program is working well.

But there is hope, for Conservation Commissioner Bontempo has tagged the sanctuary as the kind of place the state hopes to include in its program to double its park space.

The expense ( operating ) budget is to be a program budget, and red tape is cut to allow greater autonomy ( with the Mayor approving ) in fund transfers within a department.

The schedules are flexible so that the program can be accelerated as the public becomes more tolerant or realizes that it is something that has to be done, `` so why not now ''.

The American Medical Association is once again grinding out its tear-soaked propaganda based upon the high cost of the Veterans Administration medical program to the American taxpayer.

Four hundred million dollars of the increase is for the expanded space program, a responsibility similarly neglected by Mr. Eisenhower.

This is no criticism of them, as they obviously cannot get a half-hour program into a fifteen-minute news summary.

The property sales assistance program is designed to assist small business concerns that may wish to buy property offered for sale by the Federal Government.

In the more primitive areas, where the capacity to absorb and utilize external assistance is limited, some activities may be of such obvious priority that we may decide to support them before a well worked out program is available.

It is vitally important that the new U.S. aid program should encourage all of them, since the main thrust for development must come from the less developed countries themselves.

Thus, as a development program is being launched, commitments and obligations must be entered into in a given year which may exceed by twofold or threefold the expenditures to be made in that year.

The basic mapping phase of the program has been completed and the inventory phase is scheduled for completion July 1, 1961.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain a program of stabilization payments to small domestic producers of lead and zinc ores and concentrates in order to stabilize the mining of lead and zinc by small domestic producers on public, Indian, and other lands as provided in this Act.

The Institute is engaged in an extensive program of medico-military scientific research in both morphological and experimental pathology.

The Bureau is pursuing an active program to provide a temperature scale and thermometer calibration services in the range 1.5 to 20 Af.

The first part of the new structure -- that for supporting the basic program of vocational rehabilitation services -- is described in this Section.

Prior to and since 1960 the rest of the support allotment is matched at rates related to the fiscal capacity of the State, with a pivot of 40% State ( or 60% Federal ) participation in total program costs.

The method used for computing the respective Federal and State shares in total program costs is specifically set forth in the Act.

If it is decided to make a small shift which may be required from military aid or special assistance funds, in order to carry out the purposes of the Mutual Security Act through this new peaceful program, this will be a hopeful sign to the world.

A substantial increase is estimated in the cost of operating additional communications systems in the air defense program, as well as in all programs where speed and security of communications are essential.