Word: annualized
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...Foreign Ninister who is now a U.N. Under Secretary charged with finding innovative ways to finance projects. He runs an agency called UNITAID that is attached to the World Health Organization and already channels funds to fight disease in poor countries. UNITAID was founded in 2006. Its $400 million annual budget is funded by Britain, France, Norway, Brazil and Chile. Douste-Blazy is now trying to turbo-charge those efforts by bringing in private donations. He's set up a foundation linked to UNITAID that will collect the voluntary airline-ticket levy and distribute it to key players...
...Don’t Tell’ because ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ breaks the rules of integrity.” Choi, who has taken classes at the Harvard Extension School, spoke after receiving the first annual Service to Humanity award from the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard, an honor bestowed on a Harvard student who has shown leadership in ethical service to others. During his speech and the question-and-answer session that followed, Choi went from cracking jokes about being mentioned on the Daily Show to passionately demanding that...
...parents and grandparents.But on the anniversary of the 1787 signing of the Constitution (and his 70th birthday), Souter, sporting a navy blue Lowell House tie, returned to his alma mater, providing a glimpse into his 19-year tenure on the Supreme Court during Harvard’s annual Constitution Day event.For the past five years, Harvard has observed this anniversary with lectures by preeminent Harvard Law School professors including Cass R. Sunstein ’75, who is now heading the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.Harvard, which received about $535 million from the federal government...
...similar productions in New York while eschewing the unwelcoming exclusivity. “The local designers and fashion community didn’t have a central voice.... The whole Bryant Park thing was fairly new,” he says, referring to the host location of the twice-annual New York Fashion Week, “[And] I thought, ‘Let’s do something similar, except for a Boston audience.’ It would be grassroots and very accessible.” Since its inception in 1995, Boston Fashion Week has maintained this egalitarian attitude...
Even before the momentous semester begins next week, students will have to clear one hurdle - what is expected to be a large antigovernment demonstration this Friday on Quds Day, ostensibly an annual memorial in support of the Palestinian people. The authorities are certainly worried about an uncontrollable crowd of seething young students. They have reasons to be fearful. The government shut down campuses early because of the presidential election, but students nevertheless led the mass protests that followed the announcement of the results. Roughly half of Tehran's students are from out of town, and these students were sent packing...