Word: establish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business in Florida," he tells crowds. "And that's where my record has been. I'm going to use a lot of businesspeople to help solve some of our problems." His Democratic opponent, State Senator Robert Graham, wants to put a two-year freeze on all property taxes and establish a tax-reform commission. He claims to know the value of a buck, since he worked at 100 different jobs?from plumber to stable hand to cigar maker?during the primary campaign...
...their foes are backing away from the prospect Of more slaughter. "As long as the Syrians are in Lebanon, there is no peace," warned Chamoun last week. Equally adamant was Syrian President Hafez Assad, who insisted that his troops had opened fire on the Christians in order to "establish the authority of the Sarkis government." But when the Lebanese President proposed that a buffer force of Lebanese soldiers be deployed between the Christians and Syrians, Assad had a brusque reply: "There is no Lebanese army, and what there is represents the Christians." After Sarkis completed a hasty tour...
...didn't make any ground. We're not opposed in principle to an all-parties conference, but we are opposed to going with preconceived conditions. For example, the Anglo-American plan would liquidate the Rhodesian security forces. This would lead to absolute chaos. Then they want to establish an appointee of the British government as virtual dictator. We wonder why this is necessary. The Americans and British say [Joshua] Nkomo is the man, that you can forget [Robert] Mugabe. Now, I don't say that [British Foreign Secretary David] Owen and Vance specifically say they love Nkomo...
...Federal Government-from the meaning of an agency regulation to the meaning of the Constitution-need to be finally resolved and which issues can be left to simmer. Last week, for example, McCree okayed a Government appeal on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration, which is trying to establish that it has the right to investigate makers of poorly performing surgical and medical devices. He vetoed an appeal sought by the Defense Department to oppose a lower court's award of back pay and promotion in a racial discrimination case that he judged raised no new legal issues...
...play sometimes seems as richly secretive as a bank vault, Michael Kahn's obtuse direction fails to supply the cast with the 'combination that would unlock its hidden treasures. As a coarse, blustery doctor whose best medicine is home truth, Louis Zorich does manage to establish a comic territorial imperative...