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service program

n. (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer; "a computer system provides utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users" [syn: utility program, utility]

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A trustee can be a user account, group account, or a logon account for a service program.

The Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), school breakfast and lunch programmes, the Summer Food Service Program - all have been shown to work, although they do not get to all the people who need them.

The president's consumer expert, some woman who looked as if she might have been a child star in the 1930s before passing time had turned her into a political hermaphrodite, had been on a public-service program two nights ago, talking about the ways!

The hearings had gone smoothly, the press was unanimous in praise of his handling of this complicated issue, and according to the television polls, an unprecendented 24 percent of the viewing public was tuning in to this public service program, nearly as many as were following The Guiding Light.

I had sent legislation to Congress to create my national service program, to double the Earned Income Tax Credit and create empowerment zones in poor communities, and to dramatically cut the cost of college loans, saving billions of dollars for both students and taxpayers.

Thus was planted a seed that more than twenty years later, in my first presidential campaign, would blossom into my proposal for a national community service program for young people.

That morning I had signed the bill creating AmeriCorps, the national service program.