Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...typical Harvard students about their Christmas plans and they are likely to a) look at you mournfully and elaborate on the uncooperative nature of their senior theses, b) sigh blissfully at the thought of sleeping off the residue of that last tutorial paper, c) launch into a 20-minute discourse on snow conditions at their favorite ski resorts, or d) blush and mumble something about a grandmother in Miami...
...Clark, Post Editorial Page Editor James Wechsler, New York Magazine Editor Clay Felker. "It's her way of flirting," says Felker. This year she became serious. Among the possible reasons: the specter of afternoon competition from the News-or from Murdoch, who had been telling associates he might launch his own New York daily if he could not get the Post; Schiff's conclusion that her daughter, Post Assistant Publisher Adele Hall Sweet, would never fill her slippers; recent tax-law changes, effective Dec. 31, that would reduce the value of the paper to her estate...
This is the point where one would typically launch a jeremiad about reportorial accuracy, but letters taking that approach have become as stereotyped and predictable as the original errors. Still, if members of a History Club aren't concerned with getting its history told correctly, who will be? Donald C. Bellomy John J. Bukowczyk Teaching Fellows in History
...Launch a year-long study of the federal tax structure to simplify the revenue system and eliminate some of the deductions, loopholes and tax shelters that are chiefly used by upper-income people...
Finney added that a decision to launch a drive, which would probably be for $100-150 million, would not be announced until next year...