Word: nascent
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...retired U.S. Special Forces soldier helped the FBI to uncover an alleged nascent terror cell in Toledo, Ohio, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney in Cleveland Thomas Getz. Three men, two U.S. citizens originally from Jordan and one U.S. resident from Lebanon, had asked the former U.S. commando for help in coordinating "jihad training exercises," according the indictment. But what the suspects didn't know was that the retired soldier was working with investigators all along...
...novel was first discovered during Viswanathan’s senior year at Bergen County Academy in New Jersey when she solicited help from IvyWise, a company that guides students through the college application process. After making its way to her IvyWise aide, Katherine Cohen, Viswanathan’s nascent manuscript was passed onto Suzanne Gluck and Jennifer Rudolph Walsh of the William Morris Agency, who shipped the script to various publishers. Viswanathan’s unfinished manuscript eventually grabbed the attention of Little, Brown, and Company, who offered Viswanathan a $500,000 for a two-book deal while still...
...statement comes one week after the council, the 19-member elected governing body of FAS, asked professors to consider a range of options for the nascent dean search—including the possibility of selecting a FAS chief independently of the central administration...
...Harvard, BMF President Tracy “Ty” Moore ’06 said. “The old Remix wasn’t properly formatted, wasn’t neat, [and] didn’t look like a real magazine. It was in its nascent stages of development,” said Michael P. Anderson ’08, the social chair of BMF. The publication also did not circulate on campus beyond the membership of BMF. “Most of black history has been an oral history. We want to document our history...
...Israel certainly has the ability to target Iran, with an estimated 100 to 200 nukes of its own (though Tel Aviv refuses to confirm a nuclear weapons program at all). But taking out Iran's nascent weapons factories will take a lot more than a single bombing raid or a few missiles. Drawing the obvious lesson from the attack on Osirak, Iran's leaders have spread their country's nuclear facilities between at least 20 known sites and buried many of them deep underground. Inflicting serious damage would require multiple surgical air strikes. "We are speaking about a large program...