Word: proceed
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...Presidential press conferences, in many ways, are like fashion shows. They proceed in a predictable and highly orchestrated fashion. Invitees are there to observe but also to strut their stuff. Attendance is limited to insiders. And the seating is telling, reflecting an ingrained pecking order. In the White House, the two wire outlets, Reuters and AP, are always given front-row seats and invited to ask the first questions of the President. But also sitting in the front row at Obama's press conference were Sam Stein, a 26-year-old class of '07 graduate of Columbia Journalism School...
...installed by a private company hired by the Boston Office, without the involvement of the Cambridge City Council. It remains unclear what effect the council’s resolution will have on the surveillance initiative. In Brookline, a town that also falls under the program, local officials voted to proceed with the program on a trial basis, according to Nancy Daly, chairwoman of the Brookline Selectmen. “I would imagine we can stop it...It’s a matter of the Brookline police department voluntarily going along with it,” Daly said in a phone...
...unanimous vote, the City of Boston gave Boston College the green light to proceed with its $1.6 billion campus expansion in Brighton, but deferred decision-making on a controversial dormitory that BC proposed to build on property purchased from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston...
...considering adopting a rescue-dog, and he plays recreational basketball with his white-collar friends. Obama champions Harvard students’ conception of what the world should be like—in Obama, the Harvard types have finally found a president who shares their notions of how best to proceed in this age of global terrorism and economic instability. Roundtables with mass-murdering dictators? Wonderful. Wealth redistribution across the board? Excellent. Never mind that these aspiring Harvard politicos have never taken part in major lawmaking. Neither has their pal Barack...
...minutes later, Lovell typed the instructions for the engine burn into the on-board computer, and the computer flashed back "99:40," which was code for "Are you sure?" Lovell hit the Proceed button. The engine lit and the burn worked exactly as scripted, inserting Apollo 8 into an initial lunar orbit 169.1 miles high at its peak and just 60.5 miles above the lunar craters at its nadir. Even before the crew re-emerged around the other side of the moon and back into radio contact with Houston, Anders snapped what is surely the most iconic photo...