Word: establish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your talks." Trudeau had every reason to be wary. His government is upset over U.S. attitudes on oil imports and wheat prices. It is apprehensive about Nixon's Safeguard ABM system. It is engaged in an intensive review of foreign and defense policy. Canada has already decided to establish full diplomatic relations with Red China, and very soon will decide whether to continue its membership in NATO...
...preserve. For years, the Philippines shunned any ties whatsoever with Communist countries. Now Filipino students and journalists in growing numbers visit the Soviet Union. The Russians, in turn, send trade and cultural groups; Bolshoi dancers were performing in Manila last week. Many Filipinos expect that the two countries will establish diplomatic relations within a few years...
Almost his first move as President was to establish an agency with the somewhat pompous name of "the Office of Experts." It consisted of a group of highly trained technocrats (average age: 34) assigned to find ways of breathing efficiency into the government. Despite considerable effort, they have not succeeded in getting rid of the mountainous red tape that hampers government administration. Moreover, one of the root problems in South Viet Nam's government?corruption?is so pervasive that neither stern warnings nor the outright firing of half the 44 province chiefs and 91 district chiefs has made more than...
...dispute began over B.S.U. and T.W.L.F. demands for more black students and more black studies. On these points, the strikers could claim some success: under the terms of the agreement, San Francisco State will increase minority-group enrollment, but only "as far as resources permit," and establish a department of black studies, though it will not be an autonomous department as the strikers had originally demanded...
...this imprisoning world also contains their actions. Edelstein plays down his actors' facial expressions and impetuous gestures, orchestrating every body motion into the rhythm of the film. Changes in his characters' positions directly express the progress of the plot and establish a system of relations between his characters which you see unfold before you eyes...