Word: accession
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...fact, Harvard Law School (HLS) does not control access to Hemenway. New challenges facing the gym will be decided in committees of administrators and students with full cooperation between HLS and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, without whom we could not have completed the renovations in the first place...
...great benefit of Saylor's proposal is that it could offer a bare bones college education to people who otherwise might not be able to access one. Working mothers or those with full-time jobs, for example, could take advantage of this resource...
Richard's spanking new empire is starting to rival the one Dad took decades to amass. And while CyberWorks' capitalization could deflate tomorrow with a market slump, Richard's vision is hugely ambitious. He wants to provide fast and flexible interactive television and Internet access, through so-called broadband connections, to the vast populations of China, India and the rest of Asia--and thus become the largest such provider in the world. Dad is on the same wavelength. A week before his son struck the Cable & Wireless deal, Li Sr. went public with a tiny, barely operating Internet company called...
...Telecom, announced its intention to spin off non-core businesses like HKT, Richard realized that HKT had assets he could use. Chief among them: its broadband Internet service, which has 100,000 customers; its cellular-phone system and the potential of new, third-generation cellular technology to enable Internet access; and rights to a valuable deal signed by Murdoch's Star TV to provide television shows for HKT's broadband network. He eventually offered shareholders a package of shares and cash that could cost him $12 billion...
...Mayor Luzhkov joined forces to form Fatherland, their victory--first in Duma elections and then the presidential race--seemed inevitable. Within a couple of months, however, they had been reduced to bit players. The main weapon employed by Pavlovsky was the Internet. Only a million or so Russians have access to the Web, he notes, but they are the elite--in universities, government offices, security services and the mass media. This makes the Net a powerful yet dangerous tool, Pavlovsky remarked recently. Through it, he explains, black propaganda can easily be "laundered" into "white" press reports...