Word: establish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controversy had been set off by disclosures in the local press that the Israeli government was planning to establish five new settlements on the West Bank. This was in contradiction to Begin's promise to Cyrus Vance a week earlier: that Israel would refrain from starting any more such settlements until after the September summit...
...women demanded more conclusive proof. So out went a call to Dr. Chaim Brautbar, a specialist in immunogenetics. He promptly began tissue-typing all the principals: babies, parents and grandparents. In such tests, scientists search the blood for small snatches of cellular material and compare it in order to establish genetic links between individuals...
...branded the "Denard delegation" and unceremoniously thrown out. Western nations that would like to help the Comoros are reluctant to extend aid to a nation dominated by a pack of hired guns. Says a Comoran official: "Our biggest problem now is how to get the mercenaries out and re-establish relations with the rest of Africa...
...from the start, when he sits at the counter reading Playboy, perusing the centerfold as if it were The New York Times, sucking his upper lip noisily and smoking a cigarette as if it were the first one he had ever seen in his life, he generally fails to establish himself as a convincing character. Director Leslie Rose obviously has no idea what a real redneck is like, and neither does Lipson. Throughout the play Lipson fumbles lines, drops his cigarette and slips in and out of character. He is markedly better in the second act, when he is being...
...news that Harvard plans to establish a program of graduate studies for black South Africans is welcome. But such a policy should not distract us from the more fundamental issues that students brought up last year...