Word: embarks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from his job as a budget analyst for Florida's Broward County. "We just couldn't take the chance of anything happening to employees or to anyone visiting the office," explains John Canada, budget and management policy director for the county. Many AIDS victims who feel wronged hesitate to embark on legal battles that they may not live to see completed. Not Shuttleworth. He brought a $15 million lawsuit against the county, and has continued to press it while struggling through AIDS-related pneumonia and meningitis...
...were together again; we literally were not apart for a minute's time. On the other hand, he began berating himself for not continuing his hunger strike and for giving in to them. He had threatened another strike for Sept. 7, but when they discharged him he did not embark on it, unable to be apart from me any longer...
...female yuppie, a hard- working stock trader who refuses to acquire furniture, artwork or a steady boyfriend for fear of being tied down. She picks up a waiter who is an out-of- work actor; he refuses to be bought or treated as an object, and they embark on a classic screwball-comedy romance, unable to live with or without each other...
Lauren delegates most of his company's day-to-day financial oversight to his only co-owner, Polo President Peter Strom, 57, who holds 10% of the stock. When Lauren wants to embark on a new venture, it is Strom's job to calculate what prices they would need to charge and how many items they would have to sell to break even. The huge profits from certain staple items, such as Polo shirts (see box), give Lauren the freedom to expand into riskier products. Example: at any given time Lauren may offer 60 styles of sweaters in his collections...
This month Sea Cliff will embark on a mission for the U.S. Geological Survey in the Gorda Ridge off the coast of California and Oregon. Descending to 13,000 ft., it will enable scientists to get a close-up look at nodules of manganese and other metals that build up near geologically active breaks in the earth's crust. In the future, even more versatile undersea craft will be used to mine these minerals and bring them to the surface...