Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and related agencies appropriations for 1984: hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, Part 2

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Page 1227 - The University of Texas System Cancer Center — MD Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, Texas.
Page 1227 - Fellowship from the University of Texas System Cancer Center, MD Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston.
Page 928 - If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.
Page 1018 - ... the systematic and effective coordination of the resources of school, public, academic, and special libraries and special information centers for improved services of a supplementary nature to the special clientele served by each type of library or center...
Page 1042 - excellence" to mean several related things. At the level of the individual learner, it means performing on the boundary of individual ability in ways that test and push back personal limits, in school and in the workplace.
Page 1329 - Taft declared: Education is primarily a State function — but in the field of education, as in the fields of health, relief, and medical care, the Federal Government has a secondary obligation to see that there is a basic floor under those essential services for all adults and children in the United States.
Page 855 - Our justification for higher funding levels stems from the purpose for which the money is spent — the prevention of an incalculable waste of human potential — a purpose on which no price tag can be placed. Whether the cost is hundreds of millions or hundreds of thousands...
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Page 900 - ... (4) collect, prepare, publish, and disseminate special educational or informational materials, including reports of the projects for which funds are provided under this...
Page 856 - States in providing comprehensive services for independent living designed to meet the current and future needs of individuals whose disabilities are so severe that they do not presently have the potential for employment but may benefit from vocational rehabilitation services which will enable them to live and function independently.