Word: undertook
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...addition to studying potential courses of action for the future, the committee undertook studies to determine the types of demographic change that have taken place in the area since the late...
...little that motive was actually at work appears from the easy way he gave up the enterprise when it promised to bring in serious returns. In his autobiography, which plays down Andover and the East, the move to Texas is described in terms of the physical work he undertook when the natives were too shrewd to get caught doing...
Scorsese, the director of Taxi Driver and The Color of Money, has tried for years to make a film of The Last Temptation. Paramount had planned to produce it in 1983 but backed away, fearing pressure from Fundamentalists. When Universal undertook the project, it hired born-again Marketers Tim Penland and the Rev. Larry Poland to help allay concern about the film among their fellow conservative Christians. The pair marked 80 out of 120 script pages where they thought dialogue or action would be unacceptable, then resigned, they say, after concluding that Universal would not respond to their objections...
...spending $160 billion a year on its huge purchases of sophisticated weapons and mundane supplies, the U.S. Defense Department has become the "largest and the most important business enterprise in the world," declared a presidential commission that undertook to reform the Pentagon's procurement procedures two years ago. It is also a system, said the commission, that is "fundamentally ill" in the way it awards 15 million contracts annually. Just how wrong things have gone at the Pentagon became apparent last week. Operation Ill Wind, an extensive two-year investigation of fraud and bribery in the handling of major purchases...
...group, composed of homeless people, the formerly homeless, shelter volunteers, students and other activists, undertook the two-hour march and joined about 30 more protesters in a rally on the steps of the State House...