Word: reach
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...Citibank’s historic 1998 merger with Travelers, an insurance company. The one-time “financial supermarket” was exposed as a bloated, mismanaged basket case by the financial crisis. Today, Citigroup is selling many of its investment and insurance divisions in an effort to reach a more manageable size and return to profitability...
Member response to the initiative is divided. “It is disconcerting to see that they are trying to expand membership to anyone who has the cash, but are not making an effort to reach out to the Harvard community at large,” said Joseph S. Evangelista ’96, the former Young Members Committee Chair and member of the club...
...section. You will be obnoxious and everyone will glare at you. Please be quiet. On the plus side, you’ll probably ace that final. Dream: The wind is whipping around your cold, questionably dressed self as you trudge along forever and ever, never seeming to reach your final destination. Prediction: Best case scenario: shuttle of shame. What will probably happen: the shuttle won’t come in time, and you’ll have to make the walk of shame from the quad, themed outfit and all. Oh, and you?...
Plouffe also stressed the campaign’s new approach to reaching out to voters by deviating from conventional means and remaining receptive to new strategies, such as analyzing demographic data to best reach swing voters...
...Afghan police force were highlighted by this month's Helmand checkpoint shooting (the dead soldiers had been mentoring the Afghan police) - and building up the Afghan army is only comparatively less problematic. A new report from the Berlin-based think tank SWP predicts that the Afghan National Army will reach its target level of 134,000 troops by 2011. But the report also highlights the difficulty of instilling a sense of collective responsibility in Afghan forces, citing the high level of equipment that is sabotaged or ends up on the black market...