Word: establish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warships steamed in the eastern Mediterranean to evacuate Americans from Lebanon if necessary, U.S. officials admitted that the U.S. role in the crisis had been eclipsed by the latest Arab initiatives. For the Lebanese, a political solution remained in the distance. Even with the latest attempt to establish a ceasefire, the basic issues between Lebanon's Moslems and Christians, so far from being resolved, have been intensified by the terrible bloodshed of recent weeks...
...lashed out against federal regulation in his annual report to the Overseers this year, says the University "has changed the line we will be following in its lobbying efforts. Unable to effectively ward off pending legislation, the University will strive to establish subtler points of access to the individuals drafting the enactments affecting Harvard...
With the "new mood" on campus, though, successful navigation through pre-professional waters seems more to require those traits The Lonely Crowd assigned to the inner-direction of the 19th century: goal and achievement orientation; the urge to outdistance, at all costs, one's competitors; the need always to establish for one's self an isolated and recognizable claim on a new piece of territory...
...State and a possible Democratic Secretary) agree with William Spencer of Citicorp that "the political boundaries of nation-states are too narrow and constricted to define the scope and sweep of modern business." They sympathize with the desire of Carl Gerstecker of Dow Chemical (a former America-Firster) to establish his company's headquarters on an island under the sovereignty of no nation...
...University broke ground for a swimming, tennis and track facility in Soldiers Field. Reardon said he believes the program will be able to find the additional $4.7 million needed to establish an endowment for the building's maintenance...