Word: launched
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...professorship at Belgrade University. When the opportunistic Milosevic, in a campaign to win over intellectuals, offered him the job back in 1989, Kostunica refused. Considered modest and honest, a true believer in democracy and the rule of law who once translated the Federalist papers into Serbo-Croatian, he helped launch a small opposition party in 1992. The highest office he attained was a seat in the Serbian parliament from...
...TIME: Will you launch your own party? SALINAS: My decision is to be in the field of ideas...
...deforestation. By one calculation, if Acre would commit to cutting in half the expected deforestation along a 500-km stretch of BR-364, the state might ultimately gain $37 million a year from the sale of greenhouse credits. The concept is risky because it might perversely encourage governments to launch development projects in the hope of selling credits to stop their work. Moreover, the Brazilian federal government has not yet embraced the concept because it contains implications that federal attempts to control deforestation have failed. But the idea has merit as one of the few comprehensive schemes to bring economic...
...Harvard plans to launch a website that provides the same services as the exit interview...
...There's one exception: Bush did nicely on the character issue, not seeming the least bit Starr-like. His tone of disappointment seemed like the most effective way to go. Gore's response felt too canned, as if he were prepared for Bush to launch a screed instead of a gentle rebuke. Gore coulda taken some good digs at Bush's Texas record but he riffed on campaign finance instead...