Word: establish
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...Charter of the United Nations begins with these words: "We the peoples of the United Nations, determined to have succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought sorrow to mankind..." And the Charter goes on to state these objectives: "to establish conditions under which justice, and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained ... and to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security...
...Relative to Gardner's thought that "the need for money is less acute than the need for new ways to use it," I suggest the following: that the Federal Government establish a national council for ideas, made up of representatives from various Government departments, business and labor, plus farm, religious and educational leaders, to receive suggestions to fight poverty and strengthen human rights. As matters now stand, individuals with ideas must trudge from department to department, only to be told finally that there are no provisions in the budget for new ideas. If a commission were...
...image which will attract the best of all three. The University of Chicago does not have as much pure prestige as some of the Ivy League universities. Nor is it as way out as Berkeley. Being Midwestern, it is probably in the middle, and is trying hard to establish its own identity. Three factors will probably determine the outcome of this identity crisis -- the university's educational reputation, its Chicago neighborhood, and financial needs...
...committee chaired by another Overseer, John L. Loeb, is seeking $11.6 million for the School of Design. This is the first serious venture to provide new capital for this School since its initial establishment more than sixty years ago. The School has wanted a new home for generations and it now also requires additional endowment for a number of purposes: to provide more fellowship support for students, to bring its inadequate level of faculty salaries closer to the general University standard, to establish professorships in new areas of concern, and properly to care for and strengthen its invaluable library collections...
...Yugoslavs (out of 20 million) who are employed outside the country, mostly in Western Europe, have no difficulty returning or departing. One good reason: they send home $70 million a year. To be sure, Tito still holds Author Mihajlo Mihajlov (Moscow Summer) in prison for attempting to establish an "opposition" political magazine, but many Western publications are now available in Yugoslavia. Much of Yugoslavia's "liberalization" is dictated by a desire to accumulate foreign exchange; last year some 2,700,000 Westerners visited the country, drawn by refulgent resorts on the sunny Dalmation coast, casinos, unspoiled countryside and other...