Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those Haitian pigs have virtually disappeared, and with them may go the peasant's way of life. Three years ago, when African swine fever broke out among local hogs, the Haitian government, with U.S. assistance, undertook a $22 million one-year campaign that eradicated the country's surviving population of 400,000 black swine. Reason: U.S. agricultural experts feared that the disease would spread and wreck the $10 billion U.S. pig business. Death squads wiped out the pigs of 800,000 Haitian families, paying $30 to $40 compensation for each animal killed. Wildlife biologists are now tracking down...
Troubled by the implications of its tacit endorsement of the clubs. University officials and some student groups began investigating the College's links to the clubs. The student-faculty Committee on College Life, headed by Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59, undertook an investigation of the issue, while the Undergraduate Council called on Harvard to cut all ties with the clubs...
...those of us who have come. Few institutions in American life have set, implicitly and explicitly, such high standards for so long as Harvard has Twenty five years ago, virtually all of us. I think, left the institution with a commitment not only to do well at whatever we undertook, but with an additional sense that personal accomplishment did not account for much unless it contributed to the well being of society as a whole. We knew we had an obligation to society at least as great as the obligation we had to ourselves. Of all of Harvard's lessons...
...their heads again in wonder at the men who climbed that sheer cliff while Germans fired down straight into their faces. The veterans will take photographs. But the more vivid pictures will be those fixed in their minds, the ragged, brutal images etched there on the day when they undertook to save European civilization...
...months passed. After I retired from NATO and ended my 31 years of Army service, I undertook a series of speaking engagements as a means of expressing certain very strong views on defense and foreign policy. To some, this activity, which took me to about 40 states, had the appearance of a run at the nomination; a Haig-for-President committee was formed in Washington. Although I was not consulted by the people involved, I did nothing to interfere with their right to support anyone they chose. But I had no expectation that I would be President and had repeatedly...