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Although the government is keeping its distance, the Athens Law School on Tuesday took a bold step toward restricting access to its campus, approving a program to issue identity cards for students and to place guards at its gates.

The State Court of Appeals upheld the authority of the Public Service Commission to approve a program for low-income consumers.

Oakland, Calif., has approved a program but has not yet started issuing cards.

Anticipating these problems, the authority approved a program in 2007 to rent vacant apartments and hold them for displaced tenants.

National Football League owners, meeting in Baltimore, approved a program yesterday that refines and expands the current league policy on player conduct.

And with much fanfare NATO approved a program to redress the imbalance and improve the alliance's ability to mount multinational operations, a program it calls the Defense Capabilities Initiative.

Last year, the Board of Regents, which oversees state education policy, approved a program that would allow schools of education to offer intensive training for new teachers who had changed careers.

Natania Blumenkehl (NYT) TRENTON: ELECTRICITY BY WEB The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities has approved a program allowing consumers to sign up for electricity and gas services over the Internet.

In 2000, Congress approved a program to pay those sickened from exposure $150,000 each and to help with their medical bills.

Congress has already approved a program of incentives designed to transfer millions of Medicare beneficiaries to a program known as Medicare+Choice, but the program is stalled because private insurance companies say the premiums are inadequate.

Yesterday the Public Authorities Control Board, an oversight board that has representatives of Gov. George E. Pataki and the majorities in the Legislature, approved a program at 20 River Terrace, a 293-unit building controlled by the Albanese Development Corporation.