Word: piloted
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Since its founding, Brown and Khazei's youth service corps has grown from a summer pilot program of fewer than 100 volunteers to almost 1,000 volunteers at 10 sites across the country. City Year has attracted more than $40 million in private funding since...
Daunted by the task of raising $200,000 for the pilot program alone, the two enlisted help from a number of Harvard's most influential faculty. Among that group, Brown says they worked closely with then-Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner, who served on President Jimmy Carter's Task Force on Public Service and would go on to chair the City Year board of trustees. In addition, they sought out the help of Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, an expert in organizational change...
...Harvard name] did provide some level of legitimation for taking the risk the institutions were taking," he says. "Nothing ever felt easy, but looking back on it, we were 25- or 26- year-olds looking to raise $200,000 for a pilot...
...used to ride around with my grandfather in a horse and buggy," remembers Katherine Buffett, 93, of her childhood on a Nebraska farm. "Sometimes he would let me drive the horse myself." These days, when Mrs. Buffett hunkers down in her Hawker 1000 jet, the pilot does not offer her the reins. But he always gets her back home to Omaha on time...
...those who remain, that is, following the recent Christian Rapture, which has literally snatched believers from cars and offices and carried them off bodily to heaven. Among those left behind to battle evil as part of the rag-tag "Tribulation Force" are Rayford Steele, a former commercial-airline pilot, and Cameron ("Buck") Williams, publisher of the cyberjournal The Truth. Their enemy: one Nicolae Carpathia, former U.N. Secretary-General, current Global Community Potentate and--some believe--the Antichrist...