Word: tasked
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Take the group that could be Kennedy's most important legacy, even if George survives. He founded Reaching Up in 1987, two years after his aunt Eunice Shriver initiated one of those peculiarly Kennedy intrafamily competitions. She assigned the Kennedy kids the task of inventing projects to help people with mental disabilities, a cause she and her siblings had long championed. The kids would vote on who had designed the best proposals, and a family foundation would award the winning ideas $50,000 apiece...
John Kennedy Jr. was one of the least cynical people I've ever met. When he was thinking of launching George magazine, we had lunch at a tiny Thai restaurant near his Manhattan office. I argued that getting folks inspired about politics was a daunting task. He leaned forward and placed both hands out on the table. "No, no, no," he said, his eyes wide. "People are less jaded than you think." He told me, with great passion, how much his father had relished the joy and nobility of politics and how he knew in his heart that people were...
...Parents, friends and groupies who later saw the broadcast of the show claimed I raised my hand sheepishly to acknowledge the lackluster shout-out, but honestly I have no memory of such action. Though I knew to be prepared for my fifteen minutes, I had failed miserably at the task, and let them pass me by with barely a peep...
...data-collecting initiative is not the only action the University is taking to try to assess its labor practices. In addition to pursuing the data-collecting initiative, the University also appointed an interfaculty task on employment practice in April, partially in response to the Living Wage Campaigns effort to lobby for a minimum $10 an hour wage for all Harvard employees...
...task force has been meeting throughout the summer, but it is still in the process of trying to collect information on the "contingent" work force--casual and subcontracted workers--before it can even begin to assess the situation, Touborg said...