Word: establish
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...perimeter, they’ve got power players inside. They’ve just got a lot of answers.”After Harvard recovered to make the score 19-10 on a three pointer by junior shooting guard Jim Goffredo, the Eagles scored the next eight points to establish the cushion they would maintain for the rest of the game. The crucial spurt was keyed by BC's fantastic freshmen, as point guard Tyrese Rice nailed a pair of three pointers sandwiched by a bucket from guard Marquez Haynes. The Crimson was unable to even get a shot...
...group of department and committee chairs that first met last February in response to growing dissatisfaction with University President Lawrence H. Summers’ leadership has continued to meet behind closed doors this fall, seeking to establish itself as a prominent force in the governance of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), according to minutes of some of the group’s meetings that were obtained by The Crimson...
...China's will be larger within a generation. And Japan is facing an unprecedented demographic contraction, with its population expected to nearly halve within the next century. So Japanese leaders know they must act?to remake their once miraculous economy so that it can perform new wonders, and to establish a prominence in international affairs that guarantees that the waking dragon to the west does not decide to push around its archipelagic neighbor...
...June, Whole Foods will stop stocking lobsters as well. The company contributes 5% of its profits to charity--a long-standing policy that has continued despite its 1992 debut on Wall Street. Last month it announced it would donate more than $570,000 to a foundation it helped establish to battle poverty in developing countries. The foundation will offer small loans to aspiring but poor entrepreneurs to set up such things as vegetable stands and small dairies in countries like Costa Rica and Peru, where Whole Foods buys some of its goods...
...academic achievement,” the nine presidents wrote. “Continuing to develop academic personnel policies, institutional resources, and a culture that supports family commitments is therefore essential for maximizing the productivity of our faculty.” The statement followed up on their 2001 pledge to establish “equity for, and full participation by, women faculty.” Summers had yet to be appointed president at the time. Aside from Summers, Hennesy, Hockfield, and Tilghman, the other presidents to sign yesterday’s statement were: CalTech’s David Baltimore, UC Berkeley?...