Word: spearheaded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Education Secretary has received high marks for his energy and the caliber of his appointments. Directly under him as Deputy Secretary is David Kearns, 61, former chairman of Xerox Corp. Kearns will be, in Alexander's words, "my chief operating officer" and will spearhead a drive to raise $150 million from business for innovative schooling ideas...
NOTHING anyone says in these pages will alter the highest priority the next Harvard president will have: to spearhead a major fund drive which has already been planned. He or she will have to approach many incredibly wealthy individuals, most of them alumni or alumnae, successful in the business world, parents of current or future applicants and, in practically every case, white...
Issue like the future of Afro-Am and minority recruitment certainly merit attention, but they should not determine the selection of Harvard's next president. The University needs a leader who will direct the course of undergraduate education and successfully spearhead its record-breaking fundraising drive...
Questioning everything, he also reached out to everything. "I am an omnivore," he says. He fed on the Beatles, for example, and what have been called "the song jewelers": Gershwin, Kern, Berlin. "I liked this music. It satisfied something." He also discovered ragtime and helped spearhead its revival in the 1970s with a nonchalantly elegant recording of rags by Joplin, Lamb, Scott and himself. More important, he discovered mezzo-soprano Joan Morris and began accompanying her around the country in dear old ditties like Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May? They married...