Word: spearheaded
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University President Lawrence H. Summers has been championing the life sciences since he arrived at Mass. Hall. One of his top administrators, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, has instituted new deanships to spearhead interdisciplinary efforts. Now the wills of these two administrative giants have converged in a new commitment to a Center for Systems Neurosciences...
Seven minutes later, co-captain left back Caitlin Fisher went down with a sprained ankle, leaving Harvard without three players who normally spearhead its offense...
...many Israelis, frayed by the constant threat of suicide bombers, the war against Palestinian terrorism has become a fight for personal survival. At the spearhead of that war are the soldiers charged with hunting suicide bombers and their paymasters in the West Bank and Gaza Strip--Israelis like the men from the Nahal Brigade's reconnaissance unit, one of the army's most active terrorism-fighting groups. The unit is admired for its skills at waging guerrilla warfare; early this year, members of the U.S. Green Berets visited Beit Lid to pick up pointers on how to conduct urban combat...
They had hoped to spearhead a study on the status of women at Harvard, modeled after a self-study conducted at MIT’s School of Science from 1995 to 1999. After two years of petitioning, they collected about 1,000 signatures backing their initiative...
...should spearhead efforts to overturn this jingoistic law in court...