Word: projects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...project, entitled New Pathways II: the Harvard Project on Faculty Appointments, is being funded by a $1.9 million grant from Pew Charitable Trusts, a philanthropic organization in Philadelphia...
...project might have occupied part of a Saturday afternoon. Instead, as the author relates in the preamble to his spectacularly orogenous and deeply benthic volume Annals of the Former World (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 696 pages; $35), it required most of the next 20 years. It morphed from one road cut to a nation of them across the continental trail of Interstate 80, and from one bemused geologist to dozens. Readers had stamina then, and over the years the New Yorker printed McPhee's emerging rock opera as a succession of four-parters: Basin and Range, In Suspect Terrain, Rising from...
Ulterior Motive by Daniel Oran: A former program manager at Microsoft (he invented the Start button for Windows 95), Oran tells the tale of Jonathan Goodman, project manager at "giant Seattle-based computer firm" Megasoft. Goodman stumbles onto a conspiracy after a colleague and Megasoft's billionaire owner are murdered...
Gelb said that support for the project has been immense...
...informal colloquia...Provided important occasions to learn more about other fellows' project [and] also to carry on conversations and debates across disciplines," she said in an e-mail message...