Word: progressives
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...developing that I'm most excited about is a pilot program for savings targeting young women and adolescent girls that we're working on with the Nike Foundation. Regional expansion is also a priority for us, and we're pursuing expansion strategies in Africa - where some astounding progress has already been made and the prospects for accelerated growth are promising - and the Middle East, and also in China, where microfinance is still a nascent industry...
...reinforce the urgent need for progress, Gettelfinger brought in Steve Girsky, managing director of Centerbridge Partners, who briefed the joint meeting of the Union's General Motors, Ford and Chrysler councils about the situation. "They asked me to explain how they got into this situation and I did," Girksy told TIME. He declined to offer any details of the sobering briefing but said the situation was "grim...
...ruin a staffer’s in the process.Unfortunately, FAS cannot rule out layoffs to inch closer to the $200 million mark. The question for students is how to weigh them against our concerns—and the only answer is equally. The administration will probably need to delay progress in Allston; housing renovations may not happen as quickly as we would like. We should be prepared for FAS to spare no one, and rightfully so. There is no question that this will diminish our quality of life and dim students’ prospects in the near future. But that...
...with the prisoners they tutor, such as prohibitions on contact with prisoners after release and sharing personal information. Getting inmates to focus can also be a challenge, given the prison’s bureaucracy and the amount of material to cover, and several volunteers described a sense of frustrated progress. But tutors say that challenges are worth it: “We have to realize that even just being here and listening to them is a huge service,” volunteer Jessica K. Bryant ’09 says. Several volunteers have built personal friendships with prisoners, which give...
Even as we absorb the implications of the global financial crisis and plan for how we might react to it, our commitment to provide our undergraduates with an unparalleled academic experience remains as strong as ever. Progress continues with our new Program in General Education and with planning for our ambitious House renewal effort. It is about the latter initiative that we are writing today...