Word: launching
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...university that, this semester, will launch the largest capital campaign in the history of higher education. That fund drive--which has tacitly been ongoing for the past two years, though it officially kicks off on May 13--is expected to funnel about $2 billion into Harvard's already bulging coffers...
Yuen also received Harvard's 1992 Julio Delvalle Public Service Award. She used the $500 prize to launch Operation WOW!, or "What, Ooh and Why"--a public service project that gives Cambridge area fourth through sixth graders hands-on experience with science...
...look at the information landscape 10 years after the launch suggests that the Macintosh may turn out to be almost as important as Jobs promised. Not only have the icons and pointing devices pioneered by Apple become ubiquitous -- both on rival computers and on new vehicles being designed to navigate the emerging information highways -- but the Mac has also played a key role in making society comfortable with the central technology...
...return from Europe this week, Clinton aims to launch an all-out campaign for passage with his Jan. 25 State of the Union speech. But attitudes about health-care reform have shifted in the months since Clinton unveiled his plan in September. The economy has rebounded smartly, and a growing number of legislators have been denying the existence of a national medical emergency. Certainly one aspect of the crisis, the skyrocketing cost of care, has abated. Medical inflation fell from an annual rate of 6.3% in the first half of last year to 4.4% in the second half, according...
What will those new things be? Gibbons points to the Clean Car Initiative launched last fall, a project designed to transfer technology developed in federal labs to the auto industry as a way of helping it meet tough new pollution standards. The science council plans to launch a dozen similar projects over the next 12 months, focusing on such areas of applied research as construction technology, manufacturing techniques, new materials and manpower retraining...