Word: undergo
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...relatively easy for university students to avoid active military service. Technically, however, every able-bodied male at a university or other advanced institution is supposed to take reserve officer training and become a junior lieutenant at graduation. After serving six months in uniform, they enter the active reserves and undergo frequent retraining. All Soviet males have some reserve obligations until age 50 and are periodically called back into uniform...
Faculty legislation mandates that the Core undergo an extensive review in spring 1982. What that review turns up is anybody's guess, but for now, after one year of witnessing the Core in action, Rosovsky says he is encouraged, especially by the large number of courses developed specifically for the Core--about 70 per cent of those offered. He calls the program "the greatest injection of new courses in Harvard's history...
...Foreign Legionnaire is assigned to an operation called Grand Slam. Its aim is to assassinate Anwar Sadat and pave the way for a Soviet-managed coup in Cairo. The action takes Bruno, in the footsteps of Cain and Carlos, to Zurich, where the Egyptian President has secretly arranged to undergo surgery...
...advice of his international team of physicians, the cancer-ridden Shah, 60, was scheduled to undergo major surgery this week: the removal of an inflamed and enlarged spleen that doctors believe may contain a tumor. The former monarch, whose gall bladder was removed at a New York City hospital last October, suffers from a number of other grave ailments, including anemia, that may be related to B-cell lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system...
Staff members undergo "desensitization" programs--training staff to respond by following established hospital protocol in dealing with alleged cases of domestic abuse. After providing necessary medical attention, the staff also provides counseling services and channels for immediate legal action...