Word: bestows
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...packed audience crowded Harvard Business School’s Burden Auditorium yesterday to watch four graduates receive honors at the annual Alumni Achievement Awards Forum. Jay Light, Dean of Harvard Business School, presided. “These Awards are the most important honor the school can bestow upon its graduates,” said HBS Dean Jay O. Light, who presided over the event. “These people personify what this school stands for.” Since 1968, the awards have been presented to alumni who have led outstanding careers while making meaningful contributions to the world...
NICE OF POTUS TO NOTICE President Bush interrupts his Rose Garden press conference to bestow an unexpected compliment, telling NBC's David Gregory (who recently tussled with a microphone cord), "I must say, having gone through those gyrations, you're looking beautiful today, Dave." Oh, Mr. President, you big flirt...
...system began congratulating everyone on the Twelfth Imam's birthday. The voice launched into an excited sermon, detailing how God concealed the Mahdi -- the last in a line of Shi`ite imams descended from the Prophet Mohammad -- and would only bring him back at the end of time to bestow justice to mankind. Soon you couldn't even hear the phone ring in my apartment. I began text messaging my friends that my party was postponed until next week. Sharing a birthday with the Twelfth Imam, it turns out, is like being born on Christmas. You just can't compete...
Levitt will be remembered by the world as the man who coined the word “globalization,” but for his former students, his colleagues, and his loved ones, he was above all a man who could bestow down-to-earth advice as well as ground-breaking theory...
...Kenya In Nairobi, Hu helped CNOOC secure oil-exploration rights to more than 115,000 sq km of the Indian Ocean. China will bestow $7.5 million in aid and grants for malaria medicine, rice and a sports stadium...