Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wish to be pessimistic, but Harvard students have a long track record of not being able to identify fun even when its staring them in the face (were we the only ones who had tickets to the Wyclef show?) The only way for student social programming to succeed is if a massive, student-organized concert is successfully carried out. Maybe Prince is free for that...
...owner stood close by. The dog crept forward stealthily, guided by an instinct that years of leashes and dog food could never completely suppress. Meanwhile, a crowd of bystanders gathered, titillated, perhaps, by the prospect of bloodshed, but at the same time confident that the dog would not succeed. Minutes passed. And then, with a rapidity and ferocity that shocked the onlookers, the dog pounced, caught the squirrel by its bushy tail, and proceeded to tear the helpless rodent to pieces. We gasped, not as much from horror as from disbelief. This was not supposed to happen...
...reorganized its 11,000 employees in December from many overlapping subgroups into three distinct business units: Web communities, advertisers and infrastructure. Susan Decker, the company's chief financial officer since 2000, was promoted to oversee the advertising group, a signal to analysts that she might be in line to succeed Semel...
...seeking to find a successor to the aggressively pious Increase Mather, Class of 1656, the Corporation finally ended up in 1708 with John Leverett, Class of 1680, Harvard’s first lay president and its first lawyer. Cotton Mather, Class of 1678, who had hoped to succeed his father, was so furious at this rejection that he combined with like-minded dissidents to found a college in the Connecticut colony which would eventually settle at New Haven. The last clerical president, the Reverend Thomas Hill, Class of 1847, who resigned in 1868 to accept a better-paying...
...step now by creating HUSEC, and for giving it adequate funding from the beginning. In the coming months and years, we hope that the Corporation and the rest of the University will continue to enthusiastically the interdisciplinary science initiative and provide it with the substantive support it needs to succeed...