1.   Most low-income students attend high schools that lack a sophisticated guidance program to help students apply to college.

2.   Nor does it have the intensive guidance programs for parents it used to boast.

3.   The Pentagon inspector general last summer praised Air Force management of the guidance replacement program as it prepared for award of production contracts.

4.   The talk was of outreach, reinvention, guidance programs, cooperative compliance initiatives, and other warm and fuzzy concepts.

5.   Chirac, whose country faces rising youth delinquency, will also visit a youth guidance program in a disadvantaged neighborhood in Chicago before leaving for Paris Friday evening.