Word: establish
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...fiscal health. Giamatti readily admits the crisis and says that until Yale is financially well-off (adding that "it will be") the rest of its problems aren't going to be solved. To take its community relations conflicts as an example, Giamatti says there will be no effort to establish a plan for Yale to make in-lieu-of-tax payments to New Haven, because Yale doesn't have the money. He wants to mend the fences with an attitude, which begins "before you have to talk about formal policies," he says...
With the political scientist's zeal for systematizing and defining our political intuitions, Burns modestly attempts to establish a "school of leadership." His purpose is no less than to develop a set of "standards for assessing past, present and potential leaders," and to explain the role of human beings in history. However, given the gargantuan size of his undertaking, the book's failure to meet the high expectations raised in the prologue and Part One does not entirely negate its contribution to our common fund of knowledge on the subject...
...apparently only Carter's tireless mediation that kept the talks from ending in a frustrating deadlock. But it should also be noted that Carter's efforts were not simply a product of his missionary zeal; it is clear that the primary U.S. interest in the Middle East is to establish peace. With the Camp David accords, Carter postponed for some time to come the dilemma of what position the U.S. would take in a full scale Arab-Israeli war--a dilemma that would force the U.S. to make impossible choices, and that might well produce severe divisiveness at home...
...Harvard can establish improved offensive control, which did not happen against Columbia, the home gridders will be in the contest...
...changes are expected now," Horwitz said. "We want to establish communication lines with Food Services to avoid things like breaded dishes being served over Passover...