Word: act
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...Jeffrey M. Walker, the mayor’s chief of staff and a member of the city’s GLBT commission, the initial plan was simply to ignore the protest. Later, after realizing that many Cambridge residents were going to plan their own protests, city leaders decided to act as the unofficial coordinators of the counter-protest for safety reasons...
...those people was also a student group leader (“Harvard College Act On A Dream is a student sponsored group whose purpose is to motivate Harvard students to become actively involved in immigration reform,” according to their mission statement...
...opinionated, they straddle the line between embracing 1980s counter-culture, and respecting the old-world tradition embedded in British society.Fueling their taste for literature, self-expression, and the corruptible purity of art, Hector declares, “Forget Oxford! Forget Cambridge!” only minutes into the first act. He demands instead that they memorize literature and use that breadth of knowledge as a means to defy all that society expects of them. “You give them an education. I give them a way to resist it!” Hector explains to his fellow teachers.Fascinated...
...more importantly, it promises that policymakers will accept and grapple with scientific evidence, not ignore or censor it when it clashes with the president’s policies. Obama has already made good on this promise by issuing a memorandum that will restore a provision of the Endangered Species Act that requires federal agencies to consult the Fish and Wildlife Service before taking action on endangered species. Hopefully, the stem cell decision will be seen not as the end of morality in science policy, but as the beginning of an era where science is again taken seriously by the federal...
...parlance of the U.S. Army, a hand-grenade explosion is a "significant act." So are small arms fire, improvised explosive device detonation and car bombs. The daily number of "sig acts," as the soldiers call them, is sometimes used as a metric to measure progress or regression in the counter-insurgency effort in Iraq. The definition of a sig act, however, is not fixed. According to some soldiers, some sig acts today (those without fatalities, say) never would have been considered as such a year or two ago. And the value of the metric is a matter of contention, even...