The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, known as the GIVE Act -- sponsored by Reps. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y, and George Miller, D-Calif. -- was approved by a 321-105 vote and now goes to the Senate.Main Entry: VOLUNTEER
The legislation, slated to cost $6 billion over five years, would create 175,000 "new service opportunities" under AmeriCorps, bringing the number of participants in the national volunteer program to 250,000. It would also create additional "corps" to expand the reach of volunteerism into new sectors, including a Clean Energy Corps, Education Corps, Healthy Futures Corps and Veterans Service Corps, and it expands the National Civilian Community Corps to focus on additional areas like disaster relief and energy conservation.
1vol·un·teer
Function: noun
Etymology: obsolete French voluntaire (now volontaire), from voluntaire, adjective, voluntary, from Old French, from Latin voluntarius
Date: circa 1600
1: a person who voluntarily undertakes or expresses a willingness to undertake a service: as a: one who enters into military service voluntarily b (1): one who renders a service or takes part in a transaction while having no legal concern or interest (2): one who receives a conveyance or transfer of property without giving valuable consideration
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Main Entry: INDOCTRINATE
in·doc·tri·nate
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): in·doc·tri·nat·ed; in·doc·tri·nat·ing
Etymology: probably from Middle English endoctrinen, from Anglo-French endoctriner, from en- + doctrine doctrine
Date: 1626
: to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle
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Main Entry: "GO SCREW"
go.scru
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: probably from the south side of Boston (see "southie")
Date: Just about any time you make eye contact up there.
: An alternate form of "go screw yourself," often used hypothetically. An euphemistic reference to performing an anatomically impossible task (excluding Eastern Bloc shotputters during the cold war circa 1945 through 1989 AD) on one's self. Often highlighted by opportune gesticulation and demonstrative signaling.
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