Word: undertook
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...response to higher prices, but precisely the wrong group would be affected: as usual, the poor. Do we really want to fall back on the situation of the early 20th century where electricity was a luxury of the rich? There was a reason that President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 undertook the Rural Electrification Project. He believed that electricity was not simply an amusement but rather a tool that could improve the standard of living of the American people...
...When he undertook primal scream therapy under Dr. Arthur Janov in 1970, Lennon instinctively took painful revelations and turned them into cathartic art. Lennon had been abandoned by his father before birth, and then again when he was 5. His mother gave him up to be raised by her sister. Lennon lost his mother again when he was 18, when she was run over by a drunken policeman. Twelve years later, Lennon philosophized it simply and heartbreakingly. "Mother... you had me - but I never had you. I needed you - but you didn't need...
...money to be made pumping more oil at current prices. That meant good news Monday for Western consumers, as Iraq was forced to back off from its threat to cut its oil output and reopen the taps it closed last Friday. Baghdad was left little choice after the Saudis undertook to fill the shortfall left on world markets by the withdrawal of Iraq's daily output of 2.5 million barrels, thereby nullifying the impact of Saddam's latest gambit. Iraq had hoped that by raising pressure on the world oil price it would strengthen its campaign to break...
...column in which he discussed facts and legends, long circulated on the Internet and elsewhere, regarding the travails endured by men who had signed the Declaration of Independence. This material, all in the public domain, had been previously circulated by people such as Rush Limbaugh and Paul Harvey. Jacoby undertook to correct some of the facts. In an e-mailed version of his column, sent to 100 friends and associates, he made it clear the material at hand was much-circulated boilerplate. In his printed Globe column, he did not make that fact clear. The Globe's fastidious editors might...
...attacks and kidnapping, which appears to be exactly what has happened in Sierra Leone," says Dowell. "But it's no simple matter to expand the peacekeeping force, because to control a recalcitrant guerrilla army in hostile terrain would require a military commitment far larger even than what the U.S. undertook in Vietnam, and it's unlikely that the international community will be willing to take that on." In addition, the threadbare economies of countries such as Sierra Leone and the Congo create little grounds for optimism about the durability of peace. After all, until now the weapons that the Sierra...