Word: establish
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...Administration confused the situation even more by agreeing to a joint communique that condemned efforts by any country "to establish hegemony or domination over others." Originally the U.S. had announced that there would be no communique, partly to avoid intricate arguments over semantic difficulties such as this. When the White House proposed a joint statement after all. State Department officials strongly advised against any mention of hegemony. But Carter decided to go along with the reasoning of White House advisers who maintained that there had been "no big hassle" when the same code word had appeared in previous Sino-American...
...guard captain sets out to break Chilly's power in order to establish his own rule. In the conflict, both Gasolino and a con named Juleson (John Heard) die as Chilly struggles to hang on. Juleson's characterization is interesting: he is a quiet, fairly bright middle-class wife killer who doesn't fit in the underclass prison society. One of the better scenes takes place in a group therapy session, in which the other cons (most of them actually inmates at the Rockview State Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania, where the film was shot) goad Juleson into...
Nothing has raised the question more forcefully than President Carter's embarrassing effort in his State of the Union speech to establish his Administration's slogan. Although his staff has had two years to mull over the matter, what they came up with was something called New Foundation. It foundered. Some people yawned; others were derisive. Mainly, everyone was magnificently uninspired. New Foundation just did not have the ring of the great slogans of yesteryear: New Deal, Fair Deal, New Frontier, Great Society. Still, the Carter dud was only a conspicuous example of the general anemia that...
...special, final meeting last night, the Student Assembly voted to seek "some form" of official recognition from the University, probably through Faculty legislation. The assembly also decided to ask the University to establish an experimental 21-14 meal plan next year...
...does have a prescription for this problem in at least one area--that of academics and student participation in curriculum decisions. The CDU recommends that the assembly work to establish departmental student committees to apply leverage within departments on such decisions. This is a realistic and pragmatic approach to the lack of student participation--within the small unit of most departments, such an organization can make its presence felt and have much more impact than any assembly resolution on the subject...