Word: projects
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...project comes in the midst of a national education effort to establish "writing across the curriculum." A similar program is in operation at Yale, said Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam, who oversees the Harvard program. Pilbeam's office awarded the program a start-up grant because "writing is one important facet of the training of analytical skills," he said...
...Thank you for calling the Gary Hart campaign. We're out nailing down the last few votes for our massive victory that we project now on Tuesday. If you leave your name and number, we'll call you just as soon as we get back, but we're really busy...
Sometime next year, when the Soviets launch one of their Proton rockets toward their space station Mir, a pharmaceutical experiment on board could mark a new cooperative era in space. The package, a crystal-growing project, will be the first commercial payload put into orbit for a U.S. company by the Soviets. Glavkosmos, the Soviet civilian space agency, has agreed to conduct several such experiments aboard Mir under a contract with Payload Systems, a Wellesley, Mass., consulting firm. American firms that want to explore low- gravity manufacturing and other space-based technologies are turning to the Soviets because...
...publisher's only sensible gamble, of course, was that Rothchild would lose. Had the nearly impossible happened and Rothchild transformed his modest pile into $5 million or $10 million, the book project would have lost its urgency. If he had finished the year with, say, $25,500, a respectable profit of more than 50%, a book would have been pointless. Who needs How I Made $9,000 by Incredibly Shrewd Investing? Though Rothchild may not have realized this at the outset, only calamity could produce a level of melodrama salable in bookstores. (He is not a member of the illustrious...
Access to the libraries through personal computers has been planned since 1980, Flecker said. "But it is only the first phase in a much larger project of building a central librarywide collection of information," he said...