Word: establish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What is at stake is the kind of government that will come to power in Namibia. Under international pressure, the South Africans have agreed in principle to allow the territory to become independent. But they want to leave it in the hands of a moderate regime that will establish close ties with Pretoria and permit some kind of South African military presence to remain. The South Africans support the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, a coalition of whites and moderate blacks, and oppose SWAPO, which is backed by most black African states and by the Soviet Union. In terms of popular support...
...action. No longer a tribe and not yet a nation, no longer Orthodox Judaism and not yet a new civilization. Gone is the messianic belief in one redeeming formula; yet to be discovered is the gradual way toward recovery. The conflict with the surrounding Arab world helped, ironically, to establish, to strengthen and to integrate Israel as one community. But peace has become an imperative need, precisely for those Zionists whose vision consists, not of a miraculous messianic formula, but of a slow painful therapy for a very old and very sick nation...
Israel still faces the same problems she faced on the eve of independence: the need to establish an advanced society, where the individual will find happiness and satisfaction, a Jewish society where human beings will not suffer from dehumanization and depersonification, a community where people will not only be bearers of the Star of David flag, but will be the purpose of the state's very existence-all this accompanied by a constant effort to ensure our survival...
Cambridge will continue its efforts to establish a paraquat testing laboratory despite the opposition of the Massachusetts Public Health Department. The department will test for the presence of the herbicide in marijuana to determine whether the establishment of county or city testing centers is necessary, Lynn Knox, director of public relations of the Massachusetts Public Health Department, said yesterday...
...LEEEEEV-able. The word is pronounced with something of a Maxwell Smart inflection, and it has been the most popular component of the men's tennis team's vocabulary this spring. If the '78 version of Harvard tennis is to establish itself as an unbelievable squad, however, the racquetmen will have to pull off an outrageous upset over powerhouse Princeton at 2 p.m. today on the Palmer Dixon courts...