Word: establish
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Dayan is unbothered by such rebukes. He and his splinter Rafi Party will probably remain in Eshkol's Mapai-dominated government only until the present crisis is settled. In the meantime, Dayan intends to establish as independent a position as possible. For, as members of rival parties, Eshkol and Dayan are likely to be squared off against each other in the 1969 Israeli elections...
...derived, in part, from his shrewdness. At Dunster House, he was the complete politician--deftly dodging embarrassing questions about the absence of political opposition in Singapore, humbly reiterating that it is not his place to order Americans around, and mentioning his accomplishments in Singapore just often enough to establish his credentials. The prime minister spoke into what looked like a microphone but was actually an attachment to his private tape recorder, "so I can check back and make sure I wasn't misquoted," he explained...
This new group, caled the Mark 11 new towns, must overcome two main problems. According to the New Towns Act, the Ministry can establish public corporations "to acquire, hold, manage, and dispose of land and other property, to carry out any business or undertaking in or for the purpose of the new town." The breadth of the corporational mandate usually alienates local politicians. They resent the intrusion of highly educated administrators and architects into their districts. And since the corporation must consult local authorities at each planning stage, fierce fights often occur. For example at Hemel Hempstead the local residents...
This month, seven members of the group returned after studying Aldabra's wildlife and the hazards posed to it by the construction of such a base. To establish an airstrip on Aldabra would require dredging and damming the atoll's 18-mile-long lagoon, creating a harbor and building a 13-mile causeway from the harbor to the airstrip. Such an invasion of bulldozers, concrete mixers and men, said the scientists, would irreversibly damage the ecosystem of the island. They added that the frigate birds would constitute one of the worst aircraft-collision haz ards in the world...
Israeli archaeologists are still studying the wealth of artifacts unearthed at Masada, but have already learned enough to establish that Josephus was indeed a worthy reporter. The dates on both Roman and Jewish coins help confirm when the Jewish revolt against Rome began (A.D. 66), and when the Zealots died. The three-tiered, mosaic-floored villa and ceremonial palace built by Herod and later occupied by the Zealots also conform closely to the descriptions of Josephus...