Word: establish
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...along somewhat libertarian lines and implemented many libertarian principles when they designed American government. The only attempt to set up a totally libertarian world occurred when a group of libertarians claimed a coral reef in the Pacific as their own nation, with hopes of filling in enough land to establish a tiny island-nation where a libertarian paradise could reign. Their hopes were demolished when an envoy of angry tribesmen from a nearby island informed them that the island was already their property...
...Establish a state income tax dollar check-off system to provide parties with funds...
...political structure erected in Greece following the 1946-49 Civil War, under the direct supervision of the U.S. government through the Truman doctrine, could not tolerate such open, massive dissent. Its essence was precisely to establish a democratic facade for reasons of public relations and to make sure at the same time that the genuine will of the people would never be implemented...
...demands by the Ministry of Education, was transformed into an occupation of the building. The students immediately set up an elaborate organizational structure in the school to direct the distribution of food provided in great quantity by the people of Athens, who showed up voluntarily for this purpose; to establish a small hospital in the school staffed by volunteer physicians and medical students, in case there was a violent junta attack to dislodge them; and to patrol the campus and prevent infiltration of student ranks by police agents. A homemade radio transmitter, heard throughout Athens, broadcast the following student demands...
...dean's annual report to his faculty and a special task force report on basic curriculum requirements at Harvard both offer suggestions on how to re-establish that possibility. Among the recommendations: students should have an "informed acquaintance" with mathematical and experimental methods of the natural sciences, the main forms of analysis used in modern social sciences, the major religious and philosophical conceptions of man and "some understanding of, and experience in thinking about" moral and ethical problems...