Word: establish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...danger was that France might take Abbas' words at face value. In fact, much of what he said was clearly designed to establish a bargaining position, and some of it was equally clearly intended as window dressing to make the idea of a possible cease-fire palatable to extremist anti-French forces within the rebel ranks. The essential point was that for the first time since the fighting began the rebels had tacitly agreed to abide by the verdict of a peaceful Algerian referendum...
...future, the experimenters hope to establish a permanent laboratory in human relations that would become a part of a working-class community. There are no stigmata attached to Street Corner Research, since it has no connection with juvenile courts or social service reform agencies. In its two years of operation, however, Street Corner Research has shown the value of a new approach to juvenile delinquency, one that may be emulated in the rest of the nation...
...Student Council last night unanimously approved a plan to establish a 30-man permanent committee on educational policy. Based on the assumption that the student body is "the largest unused poll of creativity and intelligence in the Harvard Community" the new plan envisions a representative body of students that would work closely with the Administration and discuss "basic problems of educational philosophy" in the College...
...Establish the law for educating the common people. This is the business of the state to effect and on a general plan." --THOMAS JEFFERSON...
...distant from altruism. Senate president John E. Powers, now running for mayor of Boston, threw his political savvy against Bill 1030. After all, he reasoned, "We can't possibly compete with heavily endowed and high tuition universities for teachers." The AFL-CIO accused the university of attempting to establish "its own distinctive caste system that sets up discriminatory classification system identifying [teachers] separately and distinctively from everyone else." Finally the Senate Ways and Means Committee delivered the crushing blow by coupling the faculty raise with a general hike for all state employees, a bill that would eventually cost $12.3 million...