Word: embark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fellow military officers overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie. Muller had reason to hope he might be an exception. Eighteen years earlier, he and his wife Maggie McComas, now an associate editor at FORTUNE, had gone to Ethiopia to teach school as Peace Corps volunteers. Just as Muller was about to embark, word was passed along from Addis Ababa that the interview was on. He quickly rearranged his plans...
That law required the University to embark on a three-year transition plan that would bring it into compliance. Following the government order, each building was surveyed by a specially appointed planning committee. Surveyors examined each building with architectural plans in hand, accompanied by a student in a wheelchair...
...late 19th century, final clubs at Harvard were the all-male preserves of seniors only. Students would embark on their social careers in sophomore clubs like the Hasty Pudding, Pi ETA, or Institute of 1770, and then join waiting clubs as juniors. Only a few select seniors would eventually join final clubs...
...being debated, mostly over meals, are whether the father (Ed Harris) should take a job out of town, whether the elder son (William O'Leary) should go to college or start adult life, and whether the younger (Anthony Rapp), a child actor, should enter an elite high school or embark on a national tour. (In one of Playwright Furth's slyer jokes, the unnamed play the boy is invited to join is recognizably A Streetcar Named Desire.) The father, who lacks a high school diploma, harangues his family about education and ambition. The mother (Judith Ivey) wants her children...
...Soviet Union have shown signs of a thaw in the past year, the U.S. still considers itself the first among superpowers in Peking. That assumption got a jolt last week when an article in the Chinese journal Red Flag attacked U.S. foreign policy and declared that China may embark on a policy of maintaining an "equal distance" from the two superpowers...