Word: outset
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...outset, Nair did pursue her passion for theater, starring in a Puerto Rican adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone. In her first semester at Harvard, she won the Boylston Prize for her delivery of one of Jocasta’s speeches from Oedipus...
...goal from the outset was to try to educate his kids and make sure they had a better life than he did,” he says. “There was a real emphasis from the outset on the value of an Ivy League education...
...From the outset, the campaign to raise the termbill fee seemed ill-conceived and hastily thought out. Not a single council presidential candidate, campaigning merely months before the termbill referendum, ever hinted at a fee hike; and the initial proposal lacked any clearly defined plan as to how the council would handle a dramatically increased budget. Nevertheless, Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 and a very devoted group of representatives within his ranks set out on a seemingly surreptitious route of ramming the proposed bill through, without ever consulting the student body...
While the Pentagon and Halliburton say there is no widespread kickback problem, the company has begun to change the way it awards contracts. At the outset, during the first few months of the occupation, KBR "didn't put in place any measures for detecting kickbacks," says a lawyer in Baghdad who represents contractors working in Iraq. Now, he says, KBR looks more closely at its suppliers and Department of Defense criminal investigators are actively investigating any allegations of misconduct...
...organizers decided at the outset that they would bring a hip-hop performer to campus, hoping to bring a group more attuned to the campus zeitgeist...