Baseball's team owners began a push for testing, but the players' union was reluctant before agreeing to the program last year, when a new labor contract was signed.
But during their first workout together, Mr. Powell realizes that Jason, who weighs in at 362 pounds, has agreed to the program only to please Rachel, who tips the scale at 290, and that the transformation process could destroy their marriage.
Mr. Hussein agreed to the program in 1996 only after winning a major concession: While the United Nations would control oil revenues, Iraq could negotiate its own contracts to sell oil and to purchase supplies.
Mr. Bloomberg and Mr. Klein praised Ms. Weingarten for agreeing to the program, saying that while conventional wisdom held that performance-based pay cannot work in cities with strong unions, "Randi and the U.F.T. have proved the conventional wisdom wrong".
After three days of clashes with police, they left the building peaceably February 16 when school officials agreed to the program.
Once they agreed to the testing program, it meant that they were on the way to opening the store".
Eligible patients who initially agree to join the program will be given a description of the program and, if still interested, required to give written informed consent prior to baseline testing, which will occur within 4 weeks of treatment completion.
Those who decide to move back must agree to repay the program for the relocation costs if they reapply for public assistance.
Most of the defendants who agree to enter the program, Judge Tynan said, are hard-core addicts and have already been in prison.
House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) famously threatened to shut down the federal government in 2011 if Democrats and the White House would not agree to slash the program.
