Word: launch
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...spring of 1993, rising health care costs and improved portfolio performance prompted the central administration to launch a review of the University's 20-year-old benefits program...
Sometimes at dusk, sometimes at dawn, when the dim gray light shrouds them from the enemy, commandos of the mainly Muslim Bosnian army launch coordinated attacks on Serb positions. Using their advantage in manpower, the Bosnian troops pick their way around the enemy's heavy tanks and guns, ambushing troops or blasting through sparsely defended encampments...
...passing the last Congress -- and some kind of welfare reform. "Then you'll see us settle down to 60 days of really slugging it out over very hard bills like litigation reform," he goes on. "Then we'll take three weeks off and regroup, and then we'll launch a second wave of reforms...
...unit over whether to pursue a joint strategy have prevented the company from keeping pace with Apple: while that company has shipped some 600,000 Power Macs since March, IBM is still waiting for software companies to develop additional programs for its Power PC and is not expected to launch the machine in the general market until sometime next year...
More than 2,500 Arab, Israeli and Western politicians, business figures and royalty emerged from athree-day economic summitin Morocco with agreements to compliment Mideast peace with economic development, including the launch of a regional development bank, a tourism board, chamber of commerce and business council. "In a sense, they're saying the Middle East is now open for business," saysTIME correspondent Jay Branegan, in Casablanca. Branegan says the event amounts to a political blessing encouraging "the private sector to come in and consolidate the gains made in peace with investment, training and tourism." Whether it works...