Word: conducted
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...Waltz for My Grandson,” Palmieri left the piano to conduct the work. It was a little ditty moving slowly at first that peaked at its magnificent end. The whole work sped up, the beat solidified, and Palmieri jumped back on the piano for a rousing finish...
...Wolfowitz, who raised the idea of invading Iraq with President Bush just a week after September 11, is known for keeping many irons in lots of fires. An aide once told me he had seen Wolfowitz on several occasions conduct multiple telephone conversations simultaneously. His job at the Pentagon was to think the big thoughts and let the others worry about the details. His Pentagon boss, Donald Rumsfeld, once explained their relationship with a modesty that was false but nonetheless telling: "Paul's an academic. I'm a Cook County politician...
With papers to write, sports to play, and meetings to conduct, mental health inevitably gets brushed aside in the full calendar of a Harvard student’s life. Even for those students who understand the importance of mental health issues, taking care of one’s mental health requires time and energy that is hard to schedule in between sections and summer job applications. However, with 45 percent of college students reporting in a survey conducted by the American College Health Association that they have felt so depressed at some point during college as to be unable...
...With Congress and at least two states investigating questionable relationships between colleges and lenders, Citibank this month became the first student loan provider to adopt this code of conduct, which also expressly bans revenue-sharing arrangements in which lenders route a percentage of student-loan revenue back to the schools that steered them the business. Cuomo announced last month his intention to sue Education Finance Partners for paying schools to include it on their list of preferred lenders. Since then, several universities have agreed to adhere to Cuomo's code and also to reimburse students nearly $3.3 million gleaned from...
...Cuomo's code of conduct also bans gifts or trips from lenders to university employees. After allegations surfaced this month that Student Loan Xpress had given stock grants or paid consulting fees to financial-aid officers at six schools who were recommending the lender to their students, those employees were placed on leave pending internal investigations. Likewise, a senior manager at the Department of Education was suspended for allegedly holding stock in the parent company of Student Loan Xpress while he oversaw lenders in the federal student loan program...