Word: mende
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Stone’s predecessor, Grogan—who was brought in to mend Harvard’s ties to Boston and is currently president of the Boston Foundation—says he felt Cambridge activists and city councillors were “utterly unsympathetic” to Harvard’s needs during his tenure as vice president...
Indeed, representatives of a current Harvard-affiliated public-health project called Medicine in Need (MEND), which aims to study and treat tuberculosis in developing countries, said they have not relied on the University for major support...
...MEND director and McKay Professor for the Practice of Biomedical Engineering David A. Edwards said he has met with the provost to discuss the project’s needs but that it still relies on traditional grant support, which tends to fund academic research and not MEND’s more on-the-ground efforts...
When initial coverage of La Vida at Harvard came out I was happy to find a very professional article. I thought perhaps that The Crimson was authentically trying to mend ways with minority groups. I thought that when they said that diversity mattered to them they actually meant it. I guess...
...stock-market downturns. State receipts, largely from sales and capital-gains taxes, fell 6% last year, the first decline in more than 50 years. The states are running an aggregate deficit that is expected to reach $68 billion by June 30. Not even a sudden economic revival would mend what amounts to bad luck (the recession) teamed with years of poor planning and an ancient state-tax system that largely ignores the fastest growing part of the economy: services. You don't pay tax to have a tooth pulled, your taxes done, your lawn mowed or a lawsuit filed. That...