Word: restarts
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...Read "GM's New Ad Campaign: Will It Restart the Engines...
...Swiss ambassador's message (Switzerland handles American interests in Iran, since Tehran and Washington do not have diplomatic relations) arrived at a delicate moment. Obama had personally launched a goodwill campaign to improve relations with Iran and restart negotiations over its nuclear program. But Iran was stalling on Obama's offer of nuclear talks, and now the U.S. team, led by veteran diplomat Dennis Ross, had to figure out where the Saberi gambit fit in. Her potential release could be a sign that moderates in Tehran were on the rise, in which case the U.S. should reciprocate. Or it could...
More importantly, however, I have learned to fully embrace the Restart option in my life. The power to begin again, to start afresh, is underappreciated as a life skill and it is one I hope that our graduates will come to approach with appreciation rather than apprehension. Successfully restarting through career and personal shifts and upheavals is life-affirming. And, as with the computer, restarting does not always mean starting out entirely anew. There have always been the equivalent of earlier drafts or saved messages—in other words, past experiences—to provide a base...
...move to Harvard in 1996 to become the Assistant Dean for Public Service and Director of Phillips Brooks House was a restart for public service at the university. To some staff and many students it appeared that Dean Lewis was choosing a force quit option when, in reality, the forced change was a chance to reinvigorate how and where our students participated in service opportunities...
Certainly, the move was also a personal career restart. It might have seemed a somewhat obvious next step for me, coming directly as I did from City Year, a youth service organization founded in Boston that was the model for President Clinton’s Americorps program. My position at City Year was already a personal and deliberate restart for myself, which I had taken after six years managing contributions for a bank and an additional two years raising funds and guiding donors at the Boston Foundation. I had craved a way to make a bigger impact on social problems...