Word: start
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...soup. [3] The institute could fund one organization that teaches inmates to read and another that just teaches them how to find a study guide before the final. Remember, it doesn’t matter whether the projects are useful. We only need them to cost money and to start quickly. 6. Finally, Harvard can use the Allston expansion to return to its religious roots. We can meet students where they are right now, spiritually, by building the First Church of Speeism, founded on faith in Mammon. Of course, it would be non-denominational: all currencies would be welcome. Accompanied...
...Brown announced, it would have to close for the spring and possibly forever. Luckily, alumni stepped up to the plate: their contributions at two rallies in December and January - including $100 in quarters, donated by the 13-year-old son of an alumna - supplied the first $100,000 to start paying down the water bill, allowing the school to reopen this semester. (See pictures of Barack Obama's college years...
...Stimulus Trojan Horse During the debate over the $787 billion stimulus package, Obama made no secret of his goal. "We're going to have to jump-start this economy," he said over and again in different variations. The goal was to get the economy moving, and the method was to create jobs. As lawmakers haggled over the bill, Obama only rarely mentioned the ancillary policy benefits of the largest single federal spending effort in the nation's history. Last week in Denver, when he signed the bill, Obama changed his tune. What was once a jobs program suddenly became...
...idea of cost-benefit analysis seems like a relatively uncontroversial idea. It seems reasonable to assess, for instance, whether improvements in public health are significant enough to justify the financial costs imposed on polluters to curb the emission of harmful particles into the air. Reasonable, that is, until you start to fashion formulas for deciding just how costs and benefits should be measured...
Pulling in record prices for seven artists, the much-anticipated auction of Yves Saint Laurent's art collection got off to a flying start on Day One's sale of Impressionist and modern art. The $266 million tallied on Monday - a record auction for a private collection - is good news for the AIDS researchers who will get part of the proceeds; for Pierre Bergé, the designer's former companion and lifelong business partner who put their joint collection on the block; and for Christie's and the entire art market, which hopes the stunning performance will be the shot...