Word: processes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than five years, Harvard has been immersed in its Capital Campaign--a quest to shake $2.1 billion from the pockets of its alumni and other supporters. Along the way, a team of professional fundraisers, administrators and alumni volunteers have turned the process of asking for money into a science...
...process is gradual. "I continue to become acquainted and then ask the person to support a particular aspect," Klein says...
Development officers work on "cultivation"--the process of buttering up alumni to give to Harvard, and "stewardship"--following up on donors after they have given money and telling them how their contribution is affecting the University...
...industry has turned its eye towards developing countries to compensate for an increasingly hostile regulatory environment and declining market at home. In many countries abroad, cigarette makers, unhampered by even the lightweight regulations that exist in the U.S., are free to advertise or package as they wish--in the process, misleading both adults and youth about the dangers of smoking. A recently published study revealed, for example, that lung cancer was recognized as related to smoking by only 40 percent of both smokers and nonsmokers in China. This sort of documentation is pervasive, from Sri Lanka to Poland to Fiji...
Andrew W. Murray, a specialist in the process of cell division, will join the biological sciences department next fall, as a tenured professor working primarily in the new Harvard Center for Genomics Research...