Word: establish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fresh from his victory over the union bosses and the left wing of his own party in the referendum on staying in the European Common Market, Wilson had just set out to establish a new voluntary agreement on national pay and price guidelines between the unions and the government. Munching fresh strawberries at the Royal Agricultural Show in placid Warwickshire early last week, Wilson confidently declared: "We reject panic solutions...
...erasing five or six years of my life, and here I am as if nothing had happened." There is something as innocent and touching in that statement as there is in a good pop lyric. Even if, in the frenetic pop world, Elton John is never able fully to establish his ties between present and past, his effort creates another point of contact between artist and audience. Or, as he and Bernie Taupin put it at the end of Captain Fantastic...
...where the game of soccer has been played more for kicks than major-league cash, he is something of an anomaly. So Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known almost everywhere as Pelé, made his debut last week for the New York Cosmos, seeking by his message to establish American credibility for his medium...
...School Superintendent Marcus Foster was gunned down on the street in November 1973, a newspaper and local radio station received notes from something enigmatically called the Symbionese Liberation Army, which claimed credit for the killing. The S.L. A. blamed Foster, an imaginative and progressive black educator, for trying to establish what it called a repressive security system in the Oakland schools...
...Viet Nam, the Chinese have apparently become more concerned than ever about Soviet influence in Asia. As the major supplier of arms to North Viet Nam, the Soviets have more influence in Hanoi than Peking has, and the Chinese are fearful that the Russians might eventually try to establish a naval presence in the South China Sea, perilously close to China itself. Now, with the Marcos visit to Peking, China has put itself on a friendly footing with a previously hostile country while moving to balance growing Soviet influence in Southeast Asia...