GI Bill Improvement Act of 1977: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health and Readjustment of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session on S. 457 and Related Bills, June 24 and 29, 1977U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - 1273 pages |
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Page 614 - The Congress of the United States declares that it is the policy of the United States and the purpose of this Act to promote world peace and friendship through a Peace Corps, which shall make available to interested countries and areas...
Page 271 - No department, agency, or officer of the United States, in carrying out the provisions of this part, shall exercise any supervision or control, whatsoever, over any State educational agency, or State apprenticeship agency, or any educational or training institution...
Page 1104 - States hereby declares that the education program created by this chapter is for the purpose of (1) enhancing and making more attractive service in the Armed Forces of the United States, (2) extending the benefits of a higher education to qualified and deserving young persons who might not otherwise be able to afford such an education...
Page 2 - That since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed...
Page 1032 - ... reliable authority as to the quality of training offered by an educational institution and the State approving agencies may, upon concurrence, utilize the accreditation of such accrediting associations or agencies for approval of the courses specifically accredited and approved by such accrediting association or agency.
Page 155 - The Administrator shall seek to achieve the maximum feasible effectiveness, coordination, and interrelationship of services among all programs and activities affecting veterans and their dependents carried out by and under all other departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the executive branch and shall seek to achieve the maximum feasible coordination of such programs with programs carried out under this title.
Page 1057 - solar heating", with respect to any building, means the use of solar energy to meet such portion of the total heating needs of such building (including hot water), or such portion of the needs of such building for hot water (where its remaining heating needs are met by other methods), as may be required under performance criteria prescribed by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development utilizing the services of the Director of the National Bureau of Standards...
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Page 606 - PL 93-508, § 103 (1), (2).) (b) The educational assistance allowance to be paid on behalf of an eligible person who is pursuing a full-time program of education which consists of institutional courses and alternate phases of training in a business or industrial establishment with the training in the business or industrial establishment being strictly supplemental to the institutional portion, shall be computed at the rate of $217 per month.
Page 1073 - In the case of any eligible veteran who — (1) is enrolled in and pursuing a postsecondary course of education on a half-time or more basis at an educational institution; and (2) has a deficiency in a subject required as a part of, or which is prerequisite to, or which is indispensable to the satisfactory pursuit of, an approved program of education...