Word: hoping
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Harvard must remember its obligations as an institution committed to research, despite the financial situation. We hope that the university will continue full speed ahead and will soon be breaking ground on the other side of the Charles...
...Iran experts say their contacts in Tehran have conveyed alarm at the prospect of Ross's appointment. But if Obama appoints him, the Iranians will have no options. "The best we can hope is that Ross's negatives, in Iranian eyes, will be canceled by the fact that he is a power player," says one Iran expert. (Watch a video of Israel's rising conservative political star...
...hope the mayor and the City Council understand that it's not a few whining officers. It's a significant frustration of the vast majority of the department." - A nine-year Seattle police department veteran, who requested anonymity, after a vote of no confidence in the chief affirmed by nearly 90% of Seattle's unionized police officers. Seattle Times, March...
...Hunger may not have the cinematic ring of An Inconvenient Truth, but its sponsors clearly hope that their appeal to Gore will do for malnutrition what his 2006 documentary did for climate change. "Gore is one of the most famous and media-savvy people on the planet," says Juan Nonzioli, creative director of the Shackleton Group, the advertising firm that designed the campaign for Action Against Hunger. "Just as he has used that power to raise awareness about climate change, we're asking that he use it for our campaign against hunger...
...Gore has yet to respond, according to Action Against Hunger. "We hope that when we launch the U.S. campaign, he'll invite us for a meeting," says Nonzioli. "That would be great." But at his office in Nashville, a spokeswoman for Gore said he was currently busy with stimulus-package discussions. "They want him to put aside climate change and switch to world hunger?" she asked, somewhat incredulously. Informed that the organizers hoped he would add the issue to his list of concerns, she conceded a bit. "It's quirky, but I have to admit it's a good idea...