Word: umbrellas
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...when PBHA, Harvard’s umbrella student service group organization, held the annual Stride Rite Public Awards Reception, all nine names were announced...
Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) is the largest student business organization on campus. Founded in 1957 as an umbrella organization for disparate student businesses (some of which were run out of students’ dorm rooms), HSA has grown into an independent corporation with a gross revenue of more than $5 million annually...
...endowed the Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), an umbrella for philanthropic activities at HBS with the goal of imbuing future leaders with a sense of personal responsibility to their community...
...nuclear policy. He says the Russian military, which presumably will continue watching over stored warheads, provides better security than the civilian agency that oversees warhead disassembly. Of course, better doesn't mean good. In a little-noticed report sent to Congress in February, the National Intelligence Council, an umbrella panel representing U.S. spy agencies, detailed the threat posed by stored Russian nuclear weapons. Poverty is rampant among Russian nuclear-weapons guards, it noted. Many are homeless, and some have conducted hunger strikes because they have not been paid. Guards sometimes abandon their posts, and at one location an alarm system...
...Sept. 11 performance reflects a need, on the part of a substantial part of the American public, to believe that their government can protect them from all threats. Congress bought into National Missile Defense, for example, precisely because of the allure, however misleading, of the idea of an umbrella under which Americans can live unmolested by foreign threats. But as appealing as the idea may be to the public, absolute security, as the Bushies now well know, is something no government can ever guarantee...