Word: fruition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...project in Iran reached fruition, the University would then have had a vested interest in the stability of that country's regime. In discussing ROTC and stocks. Bok gives a further clue to his view of an institution's organic character. Consider his view on ROTC: "Of course, there is no compelling reason why a university should be obliged to commence an ROTC program in the first instance any more than it should be obliged to start an extracurricular program. The problem arises when a program already in existence is terminated on political grounds." A university can therefore decide...
This damn-the-cost loyalty to developing weapons is one of the main reasons that they are so hard to scuttle. In the age of technology, one path to acquiring shoulder stars is nurturing a system to fruition. Upward-bound officers often find themselves allied with contractors in an effort to convince the Pentagon and others that their project should be built. The temptation is to underestimate costs at the beginning. Admits Army Under Secretary James Ambrose: "It almost seems an institutional phenomenon that projects start with gross underestimates by both Government and the contractor...
Under pressure from the Corporation, donors said, Slive had convinced members of the faculty of Fine Arts to go along with a limited one-time sale of art as the only way to bring the plans for the addition to fruition...
...string of multiple winners to continue forever. Advances in science at other schools will likely spread the future Nobel wealth; also, they said, Harvard's recent gains largely stem from an unusually large--and talented--group of professors hired in the mid-1950s whose work has recently reached fruition...
...everyone else." Nothing that Harvard currently leads the league in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage, Snyder said the team's performance is "certainly impressive, but not what I would call an astounding beginning. It's just that McLaughlin's coaching and all their hard work has come to fruition." Princeton SID Steve Raczynski, on the other hand, called Harvard's play "very astounding," adding, "As I'm sure most people are around the league, I'm somewhat surprised." He continued, "Maybe in a sense they still have to be tested, and if anyone will test them...