Word: embarks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been supplied to people by private companies for years. The great amount of it is done under public authorities, and many of them tell us they would be able to run very much more efficiently if they were able to run their own operation. Also we shall then embark upon privatizing electricity, which you ((in the U.S.)) are used to. And then we'll have a look at other things and see how best we can bring them onto the market -- always, I must say, giving the people who work in those enterprises the first chance to purchase shares...
...eight Presidents, recalls a 1953 fight with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to exclude a sentence on Chinese expansionism from an Eisenhower speech just before the Korean War armistice. (Nitze won.) In the summer of 1962 Walt W. Rostow and his staff predicted that Nikita Khrushchev would soon embark on high-risk foreign policy moves. Rostow and other officials met each Thursday over lunch at the State Department to think through a response. "We said that if the U.S. stayed firm, he'd back away," recalls Rostow, 70. Indeed, when President John F. Kennedy imposed a naval blockade...
Radcliffe First Marshal Susan Doherty '87 praised the Governor who is now in his second term. "We trust that his example of leadership will provide an inspiration to all of us graduating seniors as we embark upon our respective careers," she said...
...store Clintville and sells a dizzying array of Eastwood schlock, including a brief, amateurish video at $19.95 and women's underpants inscribed with a suggestive message. "I've asked him to stop," says Eastwood. "Unfortunately, it's been a gold mine to him." Crows Laub, who says he will embark on a two-month vacation in England after a three-month stay in Hawaii: "Who do you think really won the election...
...long after Eisenstaedt arrived in the U.S., he came to the attention of TIME Co-Founder Henry Luce, who was about to embark on the publication of LIFE. Luce wanted his new magazine to make readers feel they were in the midst of settings they had formerly glimpsed from a distance. Eisenstaedt's companionable vision and his knack for the intimate view were just what was needed. In his LIFE assignments, Eisenstaedt flourished as a witness to our time, as the title of one of his books would have it: the guest at a sharecropper's home as well...