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...Overseers present at the meeting said committee members individually explained their reasons for selecting Summers—highlighting his intelligence, vision and focus on undergraduates. Afterwards, Summers himself discussed the importance of Harvard's mission, describing it as a catalyst for new ideas...
Granting the poor title to their homes and businesses would allow them to use that collateral to borrow or raise capital for business expansion, De Soto says. He notes that the property-title revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries was a catalyst for capitalism's triumph in Western Europe and North America...
...Urban ’04), are thirty-somethings living in New York City, going about their lives and enjoying being in love with one another. The play takes place entirely within the space of one day in the confines of Ruth’s bedroom. Her birthday is the catalyst that prompts them to take a long hard look at their relationship, plagued with difficulties, and come to terms with their future. Ruth is a conservative Jewish girl who hopes to get married and settle down soon, like the rest of her friends. Jack is a loner, a Catholic...
...containment in prison, as the otherwise elusive Al Capone discovered in 1932, or by containment within a geographic radius (e.g. the borders of Switzerland, as for the aptly-named Clinton pardonee Marc Rich). And no bite-sized history would be complete without noting that tax itself has been a catalyst of the tangible as much as its arbiter; c.f. the France of 1791, India of 1930 or Boston of 1773. In all three cases, tax came back—after a suitable revolutionary hiatus—in its myriad forms, and all-importantly different: in the service...
Overseers present at the meeting said committee members individually explained their reasons for selecting Summers--highlighting his intelligence, vision and focus on undergraduates. Afterwards, Summers himself discussed the importance of Harvard's mission, describing it as a catalyst for new ideas...