A test program began in 1997, with eight churches.
It committed itself to deploying an antimissile shield before it devised a test program.
The first major title to use the board was the fighting game Tekken, which originated as a test program to experiment with texture-mapped polygonal characters.
BMW has electrified the Mini for a test program, and has similar intentions for the Concept ActiveE, a plug-in version of the Series 1 BMW coupe.
Logan International Airport will become the first in the country to screen cargo electronically before it is loaded on commercial flights as part of a test program.
The V-22 Osprey troop transport, with an experimental tilt-rotor, will be allowed to continue in a test program already in place, he said.
Jan Bennett, who works at a Wal-Mart in Broomfield, Colo., weighed 280 pounds and suffered from diabetes before enrolling in a test program last year.
Ford had said it would sell an unspecified number of hybrid Escapes to business fleets this year as a test program, and sell them to retail buyers next year.
And the department began a test program this spring requiring people who buy expensive properties in New York and Miami using cash and shell companies to report their actual identities.
To help pick up the slack, G.M. announced Wednesday a test program in the Midwest under which credit unions will make $10 billion in financing available for low-cost car loans to their members.
"The Sky, Up Close and Digital" (Nov. 7), your article on computer-aided amateur astronomy, failed to mention that Space War, possibly the original video game, started out as a test program for displaying a chart of visible stars.
