initiative
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Bass recently announced an initiative to repair and replace 60,000 streetlights over the next two years, and several council members have turned to their district’s discretionary funding to fix broken streetlights in their districts.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026
Rural voters helped defeat the initiative, overcoming strong support for the $15 wage in urban counties surrounding Tulsa and Oklahoma City.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026
The new initiative is one of the first actions taken as part of the IOC's 'fit for the future' framework to find new ways to support athletes.
From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026
That initiative included commitments to take equity stakes in smaller firms and partner with IBM to launch a stand-alone, “pure-play” quantum foundry.
From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026
There was no officer who had captured the city, so they gave the medal to General Peckem instead, because General Peckem was the only officer with suffident initiative to ask for it.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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