Word: drove
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...leaders of the Republican Party in 1994 were bold, passionate visionaries with the courage to go to the people with a clearly defined agenda. Issues and principles drove them. Today, their agenda stretches no further than the next election. The same people who were elected on a platform of change have become the establishment bulls who fight change today. The 1994 Republicans advocated balanced budgets. Today, they defend deficits. The 1994 Republicans wanted to eliminate government programs. Today, they propose and create them. The 1994 Republicans held themselves and Congress to a higher ethical standard. Today, they seem more interested...
...HCNR Director Adrian J. Ivinson said.Martin managed Harvard’s merger with the Dana-Farber Cancer Insitute in 1999. The move brought together more than 800 Harvard faculty and received a $50 million grant from the National Cancer Institute. In a similar vein, the Martin administration drove the development of the Harvard Clinical Research Institute, which funnels investments from businesses to the medical community.Martin also launched the HCNR, which helped link 700 scientists in an effort to combat neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Martin also pushed to increase the school?...
...slowed down at all. If not for that, I’d probably be happy to be sitting at home with my wife playing Sudoku.” Schelling’s life hasn’t always been fun and game theory. “What really drove me to study economics was growing up in the midst of the depression,” he told the audience. “It seemed to be the greatest calamity that could happen, next to war. Economics was too important not to study.” Throughout his long history...
...year-old victim, who was an undergraduate at the time, told The Crimson she never pressed any charges against Thomas and asked Sprague to dismiss the case. Initial reports stated that an inebriated Thomas strangled her with one hand, and then “suddenly lifted her and drove his knee into her chest.” She was brought to Mount Auburn Hospital, where she was treated for injuries including “a large welt across [the victim’s] lower back.”But the victim met with the district attorney July 26 and gave...
...last 20 years,” said lead singer Steven Page, referring to the music industry, “the fans have come last in the chain of importance. We’re trying to flip that back around.” Later that day, as the Ladies drove by Hufstedler and her bandmate on their way to their next gig, members of the band shouted out the window: “Oh my god, it’s Plan B for the Type A’s!” —Staff writer Nina L. Vizcarrondo...