Word: foundered
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...reassure community members that Harvard is following through on neighborhood obligations attached to the Science Complex project, despite Harvard’s announcement in February that it would be slowing construction of the complex due to the unprecedented decline in the school’s endowment. But Jake Carman, founder of the Allston Brighton Neighborhood Assembly, which aims to support low-income and working class interests in Allston, emphasized that his group is “opposed to community benefits as an appeasement and a replacement of having direct neighborhood participation [in the planning process].” Glavin said...
...many students pointed to past Commencement notables, such as Microsoft founder Bill Gates...
...best known as a constitutional scholar - to run the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the obscure but influential corner of the Office of Management and Budget where federal regulations are reviewed and rewritten. "Cass is one of the people in the Administration he knows best," says Thaler, the founder of behavioral economics and co-author of Nudge. "He knew what he was doing when he gave Cass that job." (See who's who in Obama's White House...
...truly want to make better choices," explains Yale economist Dean Karlan. He's a co-founder of stickK.com, where users make binding "commitment contracts" to forfeit money to friends or charities - or even "anti-charities" they despise - if they fail to quit smoking, lose weight or meet other goals they set for themselves. "But we need help to get us there...
...1980s and '90s, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was shaken by the exposure of forged documents related to its founding. The counterfeiter responsible for the fakes was a disgruntled Mormon missionary ... He created and sold titillating documents - including one that purported to show that LDS founder Joseph Smith practiced magic. In [Mark William] Hoffman's most notorious forgery, he presented Smith as a man visited not by an angel but by a giant white salamander...