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Josefine Wendel, a nutritionist at the Cambridge Health Alliance who helped to spearhead the implementation of the city’s trans fat ban, said that the decal program had two objectives...
...affect the emergence of stable democracies and market economies in the region, one thing that will positively affect the trajectories of all the countries on the continent is a continued American military presence on the European continent and a strong transatlantic dialogue. Toward that end, the Obama administration should spearhead the effort to build a better NATO...
...Baucus' importance in reforming the health-care system, however, has grown. Unlike the Clinton health-care campaign that ran aground in 1994, the Obama White House's plan is to give Congress the lead in fashioning health-care-reform legislation. And the two Democrats who had been expected to spearhead that task have been sidelined. Former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination to be Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services in early February amid revelations of tax problems, and Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Health Committee, has had to work behind the scenes...
...September 2003, then-President Lawrence H. Summers, Provost Steven E. Hyman, and University deans announced their desire to reevaluate the University’s calendars. A committee chaired by Professor Sidney Verba ’53 was formed to spearhead the effort...
...Brugal are both board members of the recently-formed Harvardwood Undergraduate Student Organization. According to Acuña, the video is part of an attempt to fill an artistic niche on campus. "We decided that Harvard needed more of a video and film presence, and we decided to spearhead that ourselves," says Acuña. Brugal adds that the video is a spoof on "stereotypical 'Harvard bros' walking around campus...