Hearing to Receive Testimony on Pending Legislation, H.R. 1608, H.R. 2232, H.R. 2233 and H.R. 2234: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Medical Facilities and Benefits of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, April 9 and 10, 1979U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979 - 259 pages |
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Page 4 - Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
Page 239 - I can add, clinically, that the lack or loss of this accrued ;ego integration is signified by despair and an often unconscious fear of death: the one and only life cycle is not accepted as the ultimate of life. Despair expresses the feeling that the time is short, too short for the attempt to start another life and to try out alternate roads to integrity.
Page 133 - An act to provide aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled soldiers and sailors of the United States," approved August 27, 1888, as amended (USG, 1&40 edition, title 24, sec.
Page 122 - The inevitable psychological depression after injury, coupled with doubts that it may not have been worth it, comes months later like a series of secondary explosions after the excitement of the battlefield is far behind, the reinforcement of your comrades-in-arms a thing of the past, and the individual is left alone with his injury and his self-doubts.
Page 199 - The Veterans Administration Medical School Assistance and Health Manpower Training Act of 1972 (PL 92-541).
Page 133 - The first proposal would amend section 5033 of title 38, to extend the program of grants to States for the construction, remodeling, or renovation of State home facilities for furnishing hospital, domiciliary, and nursing home case for eligible veterans, and would authorize an appropriation of $5 million for fiscal year 1980, and for such sums as may be necessary for each fiscal year 1981 through 1984.
Page 219 - Strategic in this interplay are developmental crises — "crisis" here connoting not a threat of catastrophe but a turning point, a crucial period of increased vulnerability and heightened potential, and, therefore, the ontogenetic source of generational strength and maladjustment.
Page 110 - I thank the chairman and the members of this subcommittee for the opportunity to present these views in behalf of the National Industrial Traffic League.
Page 192 - ASSISTANCE FOR HEALTH MANPOWER TRAINING INSTITUTIONS Appropriation Language For pilot programs for assistance In the establishment of new State medical schools, grants to affiliated medical schools, assistance to public and nonprofit Institutions of higher learning, hospitals and other health manpower Institutions affiliated with the Veterans...
Page 118 - Chairman, this program provides grants to assist states to acquire or construct state home facilities for furnishing domiciliary or nursing home care to veterans and to expand, remodel, or alter existing buildings for furnishing domiciliary, nursing home or hospital care to veterans in state homes...