Word: setting
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...CCSR votes on proxy resolutions for companies in which Harvard owns stock, and Harvard policy mandates that the proxy votes follow the Sullivan Principles, a set of labor criteria for businesses involved in South Africa...
When a $150 million communications satellite was stranded in space last week, the fledgling U.S. commercial launch business may have been set adrift with it. Owned by Intelsat, a Washington-based consortium of 118 countries, , the satellite, which was to handle phone calls and television transmissions, failed to separate on schedule from its booster and tumbled into a useless low orbit. Though Intelsat technicians managed to lift it a bit higher, the five- ton payload nonetheless seemed destined to plunge back to earth within a few months, unless NASA can arrange a rescue by the space shuttle...
...Ariane incidents may drive the already prohibitive cost of launch insurance even higher. Insurers typically charge up to 30% of the combined value of a satellite and rocket, which would have brought the premiums for last week's mission to nearly $50 million. Faced with that bill, Intelsat set up a self-insurance fund to absorb the cost of the failure...
...also been handicapped by their lack of training, particularly in budgetary matters. The city's board of education has promised help but has been slow to deliver it, giving rise to charges that the central bureaucracy is not committed to change. "The concept is real good, but they have set us up to fail," says Leroy Johnson, whose daughter is a ninth-grader at Morgan Park High School...
...senior analyst for Paul Kagan Associates. "If you're going to break in a new sitcom, you've got to launch a campaign of awareness. When you add a sports package, people already know what they are getting." The biggest events, moreover, can galvanize the nation around the TV set as few entertainment shows do. This year's Super Bowl, a lopsided contest, drew lower than usual ratings; still, its audience of nearly 74 million was the highest for any show this season...