Word: establish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...False Witness Harvey Matusow appeared to enjoy his role. He babbled about his stringless Yo-Yo. eagerly called himself a liar, and caused consternation among Congressmen, who thought he should be jailed for perjury. The legal problem: Could the Government, in prosecution for perjury, clearly establish specific Matusow lies, as distinguished from his occasional truths? Last week, for Harvey Matusow, both the scene and the situation changed...
Stalin remarked that "the Jewish problem was a very difficult one, that the Russians had tried to establish a national home for the Jews in Birobidzhan, but they had only stayed there two or three years and then scattered to the cities...
...Page explained it: "Your capacity for tension has a limit beyond which it isn't safe to go ... The patterns you establish in your late 20s and early 30s largely determine your load-carrying capacities during your 40s and later. Crackups in middle life are usually the consequence of what you have accumulated or abused in your earlier years. Most crackups are needless. They are a self-invited penalty that we Americans are paying for a doubtful standard of material success. In Europe, and over most of the world, physical and mental crackups are rare, despite wars and tensions...
...balancing Reciprocal Trade against American tariff claims, President Eisenhower has rejected eight of the ten tariff hikes recently proposed by the U.S. Tariff Commission. But as the chief of a projectionist political party, the President has never been able to establish the precise tariff standard needed to balance American allies against American domestic defense. The President's Foreign Trade Bill faced devastating Republican opposition in the House, barely passing without crippling amendments. Now, in the Upper Chamber, the bill is currently under the fire of sharpshooting projectionist Senators...
Last week several members had asked the club to establish an impartial committee to investigate the allegations. If the club did not set up such a committee, they said, they would favor consulting with Dean Watson about the possibilities of an official investigation...