In 2007, Qazvin City in Iran embarked on a program of implementing a city development strategy (CDS) to cope with new urban challenges.
Even though Ford and Gucci Group had a growing awareness of the impending downturn in the world's economy, they had, in the last two years, embarked on a program of rapid expansion.
After the Communists took power, in 1949, they embarked on a program of mass education.
Karam's Spectrolab team took the technology out of the drawer in 1996 and embarked on a program of steady, incremental improvement, until late last year the team's three-layer InGaP/GaAs/Ge solar-energy module broke the company's own world record with an in-space efficiency exceeding 30%.
France therefore embarked on a program of constitutional reform in the dependent republics, first in the Helvetic Republic, where Napoleon as Mediator imposed the Constitution of Malmaison in 1801 (followed by the Second Helvetic Constitution a year later), restoring the old confederal order.
In 1969 the junta embarked on a program of economic nationalism that would affect U.S. capital investments totaling $600 million.
Experts in government, industry and science agree, however, that these three broad trends will shape the coming decades in space: NASA has embarked on a program to return to the Moon by 2020, not just for what some critics call "flags and footprints," but also for a lasting presence with scientific research and preparation for expeditions to asteroids and, eventually, Mars.
To help address these challenges, in 1999, the UN embarked on a program of technical and financial support.
Parnell embarked on a program of agrarian agitation in 1881, at the same time that his followers at Westminster were engaged in various kinds of parliamentary obstructionism.
He embarked on a program of modernization, and in 1869 he caused Protestantism to be adopted and suppressed the traditional Malagasy religion.
In the nineteen-seventies, Brazil embarked on a program to substitute sugar ethanol for oil.
