Word: nascent
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...Michael E. Kopko ’07, necessity was the unkempt mother of invention. The student founder of DormAid, an on-campus cleaning service, says his nascent business rose from the dust of his own bad habits—Kopko, by his own admission, is not so neat...
...April 6, 1994, a plane carrying the President of Rwanda was shot down— setting off a collapse of the nascent Rwandan government. Extremist Hutus killed the Prime Minister and the 10 Belgian troops who were protecting her, and a campaign began to rid the country of Tutsi...
...Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, invited Cabot to take the nascent HMC’s reigns in 1974. At the time, he was working as a managing director at Wellington Management Company—but moving to Harvard, he says, seemed an irresistible opportunity...
...seedy, low-level aristocrat, Golovinski distinguished himself with the Tsarist secret police as a lawyer with a talent for fabricating evidence against accused enemies of the state. Eventually exiled to France, he was tapped to produce a document that conservatives in the Tsarist court hoped would smear the nascent revolutionary movement as a Jewish conspiracy...
...bulk of the insurgency is believed to be composed of Sunni fighters motivated by a combination of nationalist and Islamist sentiments and led by mid-level intelligence and military operatives of the old regime. They have systematically targeted the building blocks of stability for a new order: the nascent Iraqi security forces to whom the U.S. hopes to transfer security responsibility; the oil pipelines that represent the economic lifeline of a new government; and local and national political and administrative leaders. They have also taken a massive and bloody toll among Shiite and Kurdish civilians, who they have sought...