Word: establish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...control over his department. Congress sets rates, wages and other regulations, sometimes with devastating results. The 89th Congress adopted a rule governing employees' work schedules that had the unintended effect of adding 45,000 men. Under O'Brien's scheme, Congress would do no more than establish broad guidelines to determine how much of the postal service should be financed by general appropriations and how much by users' fees. After that, the corporation would...
...establish a William Cowper Boyden National Scholarship...
...driver's licenses, there would be strong motivation for students to remain in school. Accidents involving teenagers, notoriously the most dangerous of all drivers, would be substantially reduced, as would car thefts. Perhaps most important, teen-agers might stay home at night to study, thus helping to re-establish traditional family authority...
...while its body is at last growing healthier and more robust. Westerners have long believed that, despite the Wall, Germans remained Germans, and that formal division of the country could not last forever. For 22 years, spade-bearded Ulbricht has worked to prove this hope wrong by trying to establish his bailiwick not only as a separate German state but as a nation distinct from West Germany in as many ways as possible. The fact is that he is beginning to have some success. Last week, as East Germany prepared for this month's quadrennial Socialist Unity Party Congress...
Despite his wealth, Floirat lives simply. He and wife Julia maintain a modest Montmartre apartment with a view of Sacré Coeur. Floirat owns a Rolls-Royce, but prefers a Citroën. He summers in the Périgord, where he grows apples and walnuts experimentally to establish new money crops. Floirat has also helped to revive the dying truffle industry. Natives insisted that a virus had wiped out truffles; Floirat proved that they would reflourish if the oak groves where they grew were thinned and the soil cultivated. Soon to be honored by the Périgourdins...