Word: tasked
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...length" was the key phrase when the plans were set down for the first independent firm owned by a university with the sole task of managing its endowment. And as he prepares to step down as president of the company he created in 1974, Cabot says it "is running as well now as it ever...
Rejuvenating Afro-Am after years of relative stagnation will not be an easy task. But Harvard has finally recognized the magnitude of the problem and has made a long overdue move to start solving...
...Secretary Dick Cheney's 1991 budget was all the more disappointing. Not only were his suggested cuts minimal, but the larger issues of military restructuring were tossed aside in the political jockeying over the proposal to close or scale back 72 military bases and installations. Cheney has appointed a task force to review the Pentagon's gold-plated strategic-weapons systems. But, notes Gordon Adams, respected director of the independent Defense Budget Project, "he did not even hint at slowing down any of them." These include the mobile MX/rail garrison missile project (budgeted for $2.8 billion), the B-2 Stealth...
...compromise to be reached, Abernethy says, the concerned parties will have to agree on who may participate in negotiations--a tough task in itself. Right now, the major players include the ANC, the Pan-Africanist Congress, the United Democratic Front and Inkatha--a 1.5 million member group led by Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi of the Zulu nation...
...main task is now to go in economically to try to build up the country as much as possible, to give these people hope," said Meyer-Landrut, who was formerly West Germany's Soviet ambassador...