initiative
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The airport’s long-awaited Automated People Mover system will begin running without passengers Monday, according to airport executive Jake Adams, who is overseeing a $5.5-billion initiative to improve access at LAX.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
It was opposite number Oliver Glasner who ultimately seized the initiative with his substitutions.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Officials point to the announcement by Germany and the U.K. last month of a joint project to develop stealthy cruise missiles and hypersonic weapons as an example of the new initiative.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
It renamed the initiative Amazon Leo from Project Kuiper last year and has launched its first satellites.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
Because nothing like the full-blooded machinery of a modern political party system existed, Adams conveyed his tentative scheme for a bipartisan initiative informally through letters and conversations sure to be picked up by the press.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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