"We give hands-on experiences so that these students can draw relevance between reading and their lives," said Mr. Jacobs of the three-year-old program.

So far, nine corporations, six of them American, have bought into the three-year-old program for an average price of about $14 million.

The Museum of Natural History's three-year-old program is very neighborly.

"The analysis and presentation is good for them," Mr. Klemkosky said of the three-year-old program.

The school also offers a three-year-old program.

The three-year-old program is similar to the Defense Department's effort to help communities hurt by military downsizing.

But these very increases are opening fault lines in Brazil's three-year-old program of fiscal restraint.

But now, thanks to a three-year-old program called Prompt Itinerant Assistance, the government is instead going to them.

The three-year-old program is a relatively meager one but it is likely to come under intense scrutiny following the shooting in Brooklyn.

A similar session last year under the three-year-old program drew more than 500 taxpayers statewide, who paid more than $700,000 and were owed $350,000.