He was a political maverick, a reformer with his own program, determined to bulldoze it through or to blazon the infamy of those who balked him.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

`` President Kennedy's enlargement of the American military program was welcomed on Wall Street as a stimulus to the American munitions industry.

The program was instituted in 1940, and releases are available only from the Recording Laboratory of the Library of Congress, Washington 25, D.C..

The first was the commune program, which will ensure agricultural poverty for years.

The work program, as it was originally proposed, was to take five years to complete.

The authority for the program was renewed several times until the vocational rehabilitation program was made permanent as Title 5, of the Social Security Act in 1935.

Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.

Counsel for the Government invited Du Pont's views on this proposal before recommending a specific program, but stated that if the court desired, or if counsel for Du Pont thought further discussion would not be profitable, the Government was prepared to submit a plan within thirty days.

The first program was sponsored by Abraham & Strauss, Hempstead, New York, under the direction of Special Events director Jennings Dennis.

In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

Of startling significance, too, is the assertion that it was possible to carry out this program with only a 6 percent attrition rate as compared with a rate of 59 percent reported for a comparable group of families who were receiving help in traditionally operated child guidance services.

The sampling program was instituted before the principles of probability sampling were widely recognized in population studies.

We will deal first with the program in the Congo though this was put into operation later than the other.

The latest major change in this program was introduced by the National Defense Education Act of 1958, Title 8, of which amended the George-Barden Act.

The total cost of the five-year program was $297 million.

The Title 8, program of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 was a great spur to this trend toward area schools.

The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.

They adopted a program by which Louisiana was divided into five districts.

In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.

Watanabe wanted to create not just a space adventure series for adolescent boys but a program that would appeal to sophisticated adults, exploring a number of philosophical concepts and themes in the process.

A period adventure drama is a Japanese TV soap opera program set in the samurai days.

The first popular science-fiction program on American television was the children's adventure serial Captain Video and His Video Rangers, which ran from June 1949 to April 1955.

The most famous case involved Douglas Lenat applying his Eurisko heuristic learning program to the scenario in the Classic Traveller adventure Trillion Credit Squadron ( TCS ), which contained rules for resolving very large space battles statistically.

The Hathaways followed the new adventure series Straightaway on ABC, about two young men ( John Ashley and Brian Kelly ) involved in auto racing, but neither program could compete with CBS's Rawhide starring Clint Eastwood and Eric Fleming.

Over time, the Scout program has been reviewed and updated in many of the countries where it is run, and special interest programs developed such as Air Scouts, Sea Scouts, outdoor high adventure, Scouting bands, and rider scouts, but the same core values and principles as Baden-Powell originally envisaged still apply.

Both girls and boys ages 14 through 21 can be involved with Venturing, a high adventure outdoor program or in Learning for Life, a career-based program.

For older youth, Venturing is a high adventure outdoor program while Explorer Posts partner with firms like the Mayo Clinic, Cascade Veterinary Hospital, Gold Cross Ambulance, and Rochester Police to offer career development activities ( age 14 through 21, coed ).

The Council also offers a high adventure backpacking program at the Montana High Adventure Base ( MOHAB ) operated by the Boone and Crockett Educational Foundation based at the Elmer E. Rasmuson Conservation Center at the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch, just east of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex and near Dupuyer, MT.

Nathaniel Hawthorne used the Fountain in " Dr. Heidegger's Experiment " to demonstrate that positive thinking is a far better remedy than deluded journeys to Florida for legendary cures ; Orson Welles directed and starred in a 1958 TV program based on the legend ; and Tim Powers featured it in On Stranger Tides, a novel of 18th century pirate-voodoo adventure.

The Bellerive Foundation program encouraged eco-tourism, aiming to reduce the impact of outdoor adventure sports on the fragile alpine habitat.

Professional Adventure Writer or PAW ( sometimes called PAWS for Professional Adventure Writing System ) is a program that allows the user to write textual adventure games with graphic illustrations.

: This article discusses the adventure game writing program.

Unlike many text adventure creation tools ( such as TADS ), the author needs little knowledge of how to program to use the ADRIFT generator.

Adventure Construction Set ( ACS ) is a program written by Stuart Smith that is used to construct tile-based graphical adventure games.

As the official description states, " In the five years after I wrote my first computer program in 1985, I filled dozens of floppy disks with program after program, mostly games, and many of them adventure games.

While there was often criticism from the Children's Television Lobby group in the period 1977-1982 led by Barbara Biggins, the producers insisted that the program was designed not to ' teach ' children but to engage them in story, song, adventure and curiosity show.

The Academy also offers several summer programs including four one-week, high-energy adventure camps, a five-week Summer OPS academic program and an English as a Second Language program.

Under this program, other publishers may request permission from Green Ronin to publish their own material ( such as adventure modules, character books, and new power books ) incorporating " product identity " text from Green Ronin's published works.

In 1959, as Bonanza was beginning its long run, Blocker guest-starred in an episode of the Keenan Wynn and Bob Mathias NBC series The Troubleshooters, an adventure program about unusual events surrounding an international construction company.

The first really popular science-fiction program on American television was the children ’ s adventure serial Captain Video and His Video Rangers, which ran for six years ( June 1949 to April 1955 ) on the short-lived DuMont Network.