This year, about 60 students in the Science Schools Initiative program plan to take the exam.
Nevertheless, progress was being made with the expansion of lean initiative programs to these elements.
But as the Refuge Initiative program grows, so too has expectation.
The Little League's Urban Initiative Program was created with the Harlem league as a template.
The Freshman Year Initiative program at Queens addressed this problem through "learning communities" of students who enroll together in thematically linked courses in different disciplines.
In addition to overspending on warheads, Mr. Obama has cut the Global Threat Reduction Initiative program, which reduces and protects from terrorism vulnerable nuclear material at sites worldwide, by 15 percent from 2013 levels.
Anticipating this scarcity of bandwidth prompted private-equity firms to acquire the PanAmSat and Intelsat fleets.Britain's Ministry of Defence has funded billions worth of satellite platforms using its Private Finance Initiative program.
In 2005, TippingPoint, a division of the networking giant 3Com, joined iDefense in the nascent marketplace with its "Zero-Day Initiative" program, which last year bought and sold 82 software vulnerabilities.
The MAK Center said the house would be used for its new Urban Future Initiative program, which grants two-month residencies to researchers from around the world exploring urban issues like sustainability, immigration and social justice.
Arthur G. Stephenson, director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., which is leading the Space Launch Initiative program, said the effort should culminate in competing designs for a reusable launch vehicle to replace NASA's 20-year-old space shuttles.
