Word: building
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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William Boardman "knows alumni, knows the University, and will build an outreach for those [poorer] schools that have got to develop their own constituency beyond alumni," says Reardon. "He will bring central expertise to deal with specific programs...
...then the junior senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy '40, won the White House and the Class of '61 accepted the youthful president's inaugural challenge. They acted within the system to build a new society--some joined the newly created Peace Corps, while others served in the Justice Department, the State Department and the armed services. The rest stuck with the private sector, from acting to medicine to publishing, but carrying on with the same spirit of channelled cando...
...Executive Branch ego (currently running at $14.6 million annually), Congress a fortnight ago passed a bill limiting the size of future presidential libraries. Ronald Reagan promised to sign the measure into law --but only after pressuring the bill's authors to exempt the presidential library he plans to build at Stanford University...
...toothed smile; the body, stocky and powerful, slightly uncomfortable in the boxy blue suits; and the hands, strong and blunt like small shovels--all combine to give him the look of one of the proud immigrants who toiled in the caissons deep below the East River to build the Brooklyn Bridge. A laborer, a man capable of bearing heavy weights, a man of explosive passions and simple pleasures. Someone strong. Someone you do not want to tangle with...
...order--he has built more than 6,000 new prison cells for the overcrowded New York system. He has proposed a Medicaid bill that reforms the method of payment, saving the state money. New York has begun an innovative program to provide capital construction money to nonprofit groups to build housing for the homeless. It has also pioneered a variation on "workfare" programs, permitting welfare recipients to receive job training...