Word: nascent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Today's announcement was not unexpected–a number of news sources have reported in recent weeks that the nascent Ellison Institute for World Health at Harvard recently laid off three managers...
...During the mid-1970's," Chang writes, "most of the youthful energy that became known as hip-hop could be contained in a tiny seven-mile circle." That circle was the Bronx, an economically ravaged borough of New York City that was home to such nascent cultural heroes as DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash, who were busily rewiring turntables and re-engineering the powder-keg racial politics of their home turf and in the process creating the future of American popular culture. Obsessively researched, beautifully written, Chang's book is the funky, bootleg, B-side remix...
...Yearly Kos by so many traditional politicians (we?re also going to be treated to speeches by Tom Vilsack, Howard Dean and Harry Reid) assures bloggers? place in the political universe. Shortly before Moulitsas?s speech, Joe Trippi gropes for the right metaphor, comparing politicians? courting of this nascent movement to the presidential primaries: ?No one wants to skip Iowa.? Yet the politicians especially seem to be figuring it out as they go along - fear of missing the boat outweighs doubt about its final destination. Clark gives his speech on American innovation to a well-attended science panel flanked...
...Nigeria's deadly delta" [May 22] reported on the nascent insurgency in Nigeria's oil fields. The pervasive optimism that spread along with the re-emergence of democracy in Nigeria has been defeated. Poverty and corruption are still concomitant with Nigeria's struggling democracy, and unfortunately ethnopolitical opportunists have exploited the status quo for economic gains, as the Niger Delta crisis has illustrated. While politicians seem poised to tackle those ignominies, they have been preoccupied with personal aspirations, notably President Olesegun Obasanjo's efforts to change the constitution and run for a third term. Until government institutions embrace a truly...
...None of those milestones really delivered on the promises that preceded them. But there was always another event on the horizon to look ahead to. Until now. There are no more upcoming elections, or ceremonies, or looming deadlines - just the messy task of building up the country's nascent government and anemic security forces. And that's an effort that has no neatly painted goal lines...