Word: launch
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...will launch a full investigation of the incident today, the police said...
Alpert contributed $500,000 to the Medical School several years ago to launch a new curriculum, the New Pathway program, that is based on case study methods. In 1987, he endowed the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize, administered by the School and awarded annually to those biomedical researchers judged to have made significant progress toward curing diseases...
...think Harvard must launch pipeline efforts," he said. "Harvard needs to be in a leadership position on these issue. Clearly...
...very closely," Bill Clinton said last week. "We have no reason to be concerned that the command-and-control procedures have been interrupted." That process is more complicated in Russia than in Washington, where Clinton has instant access to the "nuclear football," an attache case containing the codes that launch U.S. missiles...
According to a new study by Bruce Blair of the Brookings Institution, the Russian President and Defense Minister must jointly transmit an order to fire missiles to the uniformed chiefs of the general staff and the rocket forces, who both hold the launch codes. This Russian form of group responsibility depends on the military's obedience to political leaders. If Yeltsin was ever forced out of office, Vice President Alexander Rutskoi would be his legal successor; if Yeltsin refused to accept dismissal, which of the two would the generals choose to obey? Whatever they might decide, the ability to launch...