Word: undertook
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...things in particular made the experience worthwhile, Miller says. First was the size of the task that the group undertook and completed. "It was a very ambitious project," he says. "Finishing it in a month was amazing. We turned a neighborhood that was going to the pots. We really did something for changing [the neighborhood's residents] lives." The other was giving up his summer for "being able to interact with these people. [In this sense,] I didn't give up the summer; I received as much as I gave," he says...
Miller, a Kirkland resident, did more than just worry about the child. He undertook the task of bringing the boy and his mother back to Tucson, Arizona. He spent several weeks fighting bureacracy and immigration red tape, to get the child into America. Once there, Miller's father, an ear, nose and throat specialist diagnosed the child as having tonsilitis complicated by pneumonia and operated on him. Last Miller heard, the child was fine and had returned to Mexico...
Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis:Dukakis speaks frequently about the numerouseducation initiatives he undertook as governor,such as the Boston Compact, between the city'sbusiness community and local schools. AsPresident, Dukakis says he would end Secretary ofEducation William J. Bennett's assault on theGuaranteed Student Loan (GSL) and Work-Studyprograms, federal programs targeted for low andmiddle-income students...
...Waldheim's case, Vienna last week dispatched Fritz Molden, a filmmaker and World War II resistance hero, on a tour of the U.S. and Britain. Molden, who helped hire Waldheim for the Austrian Foreign Ministry after the war but insists that he is not a close friend, said he undertook the mission for Austria's sake. Accompanied by Ralph Scheide, a Waldheim aide and co- author of the white paper, Molden called the Austrian President the victim of a smear campaign. "If you pour two gallons of manure over somebody, he will smell," Molden said, "and then...
...Czechoslovakia during the spring, the Communist Party led by Alexander Dubcek undertook reforms that now seem a distant forerunner of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost -- efforts to humanize the socialist structure, to encourage greater individual discretion. Euphoria bloomed in the "Prague Spring." But the Soviets could not tolerate that measure of autonomy in their satellite, any more than they could abide Hungary in 1956 or, later, Poland in 1981. In August 1968, Soviet and other Warsaw Pact tanks rolled into Prague and crushed the hope. Not long after, Dubcek ended up working obscurely for the Forestry Administration in western Slovakia...