Word: act
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Though the 17-page letter cites many successes, Knowles urged the Faculty to act to resolve problems he termed pressing...
Galluccio will now act as chair of both the council and the School Committee and serve as the most visible leader of Cambridge government...
...final act of business for the night, the council also elected Maher vice mayor, completing the seven-and-a-half-hour marathon...
...best argument anyone can think of for the Senior Gift is "You should establish a habit of giving for your lifetime." It seems like the act of writing a check to Harvard is simple enough that I could just do it when I became old and rich, without any practice. But Harvard feels I might be an irresponsible, undirected old wealthy person, so I need conditioning. It also, incidentally, recommends that I spend five minutes a day playing pinochle, wearing gigantic sunglasses and talking about the Washington Senators, just so other habits of being elderly are familiar when the time...
...last week's spate of attacks against major web sites, it's an idea whose time has come - President Clinton endorsed the proposal Tuesday and asked Congress to rubber-stamp $9 million in funding. The creation of the center is an acknowledgment that the federal government is going to act more as jailkeeper than patrolman in policing the Internet. The major leads in the case so far, which have zeroed in on a sophisticated West Coast-based cyber-vandal, a copycat in Canada and a German hacker, have been produced by either private firms or web surfers...