Word: embarks
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Leaders of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced this week that Harvard will embark on the largest renovation of its upperclass Houses in the history of the University, a project whose total costs could come in at over $1 billion...
...recently, the pitching is less the concern than the hitting, and though finding success at the plate with runners-on-base often come down to timing and luck, the Crimson knows that winning simply will not come unless its hitters deliver in these clutch situations. For the team to embark upon its first winning streak of the season, a successful turn-around may rely more on small-ball fundamentals than the return of big bats to the lineup.“We need the bottom of the lineup to step up and play well when we need to bunt guys...
...Stanley Hoffmann phrases the question, it sounds like a dilemma from a Moral Reasoning course. You’re an international relations expert at a top university. Your country is about to embark on a war that you think is ill-advised, maybe even disastrous...
...January 2003, Phyathai Hospitals in Bangkok, Thailand signed on with HMI to “embark on a long-term partnership” to focus on clinical services, education, and management across its hospital network. And later that year, HMI announced it would help Wockhardt Hospitals—a chain of specialty hospitals across India—“create a sustainable quality improvement model...
...good goal for an entire nation in need of better-quality teaching. As U.S. school districts embark on hundreds of separate experiments involving merit pay, some lessons seem clear. If the country wants to pay teachers like professionals-according to their performance, rather than like factory workers logging time on the job-it has to provide them with other professional opportunities, like the chance to grow in the job, learn from the best of their peers, show leadership and have a voice in decision-making, including how their work is judged. Making such changes would require a serious investment...