Word: sprung
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...latest moves follow a series of financial aid initiatives that have sprung up in the last few years in the Ivy League. In 2004, Harvard announced the Harvard Financial Initiative, aimed at lowering or eliminating the burden for lower-income families. Yale announced a similar program...
...programs (real per capita social spending increased by 30 percent% from 1998 to 2004) , Venezuela’s pernicious levels of inequality and poverty are being engaged, even if gradually. Perhaps more impressively, communal councils and workplace cooperatives (as of 2006, 100,000 cooperatives employing 700,000 workers) have sprung up in an ambitious attempt to return power to the people, and with the ultimate intention of transcending the liberal logic of representation. Along with this, of course, Chavez’s authority has certainly grown. And as suggested by a few of the proposed amendments last week, he seems...
...tech, high-impact projects in the developing world, implemented almost entirely by student engineers. If you think this sounds a bit warm and fuzzy for the right-angle world of engineering, think again. Since Amadei launched the national organization in 2002, more than 230 affiliated chapters have sprung up in universities and professional firms around the U.S., comprising some 8,000 members, with more overseas. EWB has built everything from aqueducts in Mali to solar panels in Rwanda. And the group is changing the way engineering is taught in schools by demanding that its practitioners address the long-neglected needs...
...importance of the late drive and score in the Crimson’s eventual 23-7 win cannot be understated.“I think they caught us a little bit out of position,” Quakers linebacker Joe Anastasio said. “That first run really sprung their drive, and they just took advantage.”The momentum from the drive carried over into the second half, as Harvard scored twice in the third quarter before Penn could run two plays from scrimmage.“Just putting in a score pretty easily...
...than an iPod mini, and its sweetness is delightfully infantile. But unlike animal-ear hats or architecture in Helsinki, cupcakes are literally sweet as well as figuratively twee, making them an excellent snack regardless of taste in style or music.One of the youngest and hippest cupcake shops around recently sprung up in Davis Square, the younger and smaller—and therefore twee-er—version of Harvard Square. Its name? “Kickass Cupcakes.”Even Kickass Cupcakes’ name is in keeping with a movement whose paradoxical rallying...