Word: implementation
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...Pence: I think there would be a way we could secure the border, pass tough employer sanctions and implement a guest worker program without amnesty...
...hermit kingdom abducted throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In Japan, the emotional issue of abducted citizens has become almost as large an issue as North Korea's nuclear ambitions. In the past few years, Japan has passed several laws that would make financial sanctions on North Korea easier to implement, and Aso said that "many possible sanctions are on the table," including restricting financial transfers and ferry travel between the two countries...
...Harvard president have? No one would call you a figurehead, but I wonder, what with the Corporation and Overseers looking over your shoulder and quietly or not so quietly steering the University’s agenda, to what extent do you as president have the power to guide and implement initiatives completely of your own choosing? LHS: Certainly whatever the president of Harvard says or does is noticed pretty widely. I think we’ve been able to do some very important things these last years by eliminating family contributions by any family with income under...
...authors contended, the shortcomings in the structure “are more nearly weaknesses of execution than of basic assignment of functions.” And second, because Harvard’s governance structure is established in what is now the Massachusetts Constitution, asking the state legislature to implement the changes could result in “unpredictable consequences...
...proposals to take tangible form. Ultimately, far more was said than done. How, then, are we to judge Summers’ tenure? Was it merely a vision unfulfilled?Summers banked his presidency on the assumption that his vision for Harvard was the right one. He aimed to implement that vision with an urgency befitting what would ultimately be the shortest tenure of any Harvard president since the Civil War. Pushing stubbornly as if each day might be his last on the job, that day arrived sooner than expected. With much work left unfinished—the conclusions of the curricular...