Word: shepherded
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With America's financial cathedrals crumbling around him, the billionaire mayor of its biggest city made a power play. Citing a desire to shepherd the country's economic hub through a period of crisis, Michael Bloomberg announced on Oct. 2 that he would ask the New York City Council to amend a 15-year-old law restricting Big Apple mayors to two terms in office. "We have planned for a slowdown in New York, but we may well be on the verge of a meltdown," he said by way of explanation. (See TIME's cover story on Michael Bloomberg here...
...lack of availability of information to the public and community at large about Harvard’s financial efforts toward sustainability. (Despite this low mark, however, Harvard still topped Yale, which scored an “F” in endowment transparency.) Hopefully, the poor grades will help to shepherd in reform in these two shortcomings, in addition to serving as encouragement for the university to continue to improve green efforts on the whole. Later this month, the University will host a sustainability celebration event, with speeches by Former Vice President Al Gore ’69 and other important...
...with a serious news program. First, because when former President Bill Clinton appeared on the show on Sept. 22, the five-woman panel began the hour by discussing the merits of pantsuits vs. skirts. Second, because the NewsHour probably does not employ a staffer who, as View panelist Sherri Shepherd said on air, does not know whether the earth is flat. And finally, because when Joy Behar questioned John McCain on a Sept. 12 episode about campaign ads of his that she believed were lying, she used the word...
...rested after he created life, but you're just getting started. Next you shepherd your fledgling life-form through its single-celled stage until it's ready to crawl onto land, at which time you decide where its various eyes and ears and limbs and less easily identifiable appendages go. Then it must learn to feed itself and reproduce. Eventually, it forms tribes and builds cities. Finally it achieves spaceflight, whereupon you guide it off into the galaxy to meet other sentient species...
...Tokyo Japan Searches for a New PM Yasuo Fukuda resigned as Japan's Prime Minister amid widespread discontent over his inability to shepherd legislation through the nation's deadlocked parliament. When he took office less than a year ago, Fukuda was expected to bring stability to Japan, the world's second largest economy, following the resignation of his predecessor, Shinzo Abe, after 12 months on the job. The ruling party's secretary general, Taro Aso, is the front runner to succeed Fukuda, with Yuriko Koike emerging as a possible challenger. The party will vote on Sept...