Word: spearhead
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...primaries, says Glaeser, "Obama was clearly focused on issues of the city, like the Harlem Children's Zone," a nonprofit antipoverty effort that Obama hopes to replicate in 20 cities across the country. When Obama got involved with civil liberties issues as a state legislator, it was to spearhead a law requiring the videotaping of all confessions and interrogations in capital cases, which disproportionately involve urban defendants in Illinois...
...study retirement matters that the 401(k) has so far proved a less-than-adequate replacement for disappearing corporate pensions. "It may be a good tax-free-savings system for wealthy individuals," sums up George Miller, the California Democrat who chairs the Education and Labor Committee and plans to spearhead a re-examination of the 401(k). "It may not be the best retirement-savings system for working families...
History Professor Ann M. Blair ’84 and History of Art and Architecture Professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth will spearhead the effort in the humanities. Brigitte C. Madrian, a professor of public policy and corporate management at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Chair of the Sociology Department Robert J. Sampson will assume leadership in the social sciences. Rosalind A. Segal, a professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Astronomy Dimitar D. Sasselov will head the science initiatives...
...proof that “no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.” As President of the United States of America, and as nominal leader of the free world, Barack Obama will spearhead the globalization of the most precious and priceless of human goods: “Hope...
...eyed the spearhead. Too pointy...