Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help improve this relationship with the government and to address critics that say Harvard is not serious about accounting for the government's money, the University's accountants recently undertook an experimental audit of government-sponsored research at Harvard...
...credit, Jordan did urge a return to the student activism of the 1960s, a time when students more readily undertook tasks that concerned the problems of the poor. But his deficient and dishonest analysis in addition to the example he himself sets by joining a law firm whose priorities presumably do not include the addressing of the problems of the Black poor surely must make us suspicious of his leadership...
Schama, who will teach three courses this year, including the Corecourse "Lit and Arts C-23, Art and Politics in Europe, 1700-1871," says that history has been a "passion" with him since he was an infant. At the age of seven, he undertook the rather ambitious project of writing "an illustrated history of the British Navy." The result, he remembers, was "highly fictitious...
...passed over, or admitting that some actors turned down the preferred parts. It also shields audiences from the dampening perception that they are getting second choices. In the case of the extraordinary new film of The French Lieutenant's Woman, however, when Director Karel Reisz swears that when he undertook the project he never thought of casting any other actress as Sarah, the tendency is not only to believe him, but to think, "Yes, of course, that's obvious...
...Labor Department task force was assembled in 1975 to look into such dubious practices, and it disbanded a year ago. The Senate subcommittee, dissatisfied with the results, undertook its own review of the investigation. The new report charges that Labor's Special Investigations Staff hired only 28 of its authorized complement of 45 investigators, was deprived of subpoena power as a matter of department policy and was prevented by "bureaucratic infighting and naivete" from working with the Justice Department to build criminal cases. Most incredibly, the task force was ordered by Labor higher-ups not to conduct "third party...