Word: establish
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...principled physician run through the standard arguments for and against abortion. This time, however, the sex roles are reversed: Man is the desperate, powerless victim, and woman the smug, powerful perpetrator. To his cry that he has the right to pursue a career he's worked hard to establish, the feminist surgeon ironically answers that the unborn also have rights and that even one transgression of these rights would set an evil precedent. When he says he'd like to kill her, she replies that often "the impregnated wants to kill the impregnator...
...legislation now before Congress would establish sets of safety regulations, geared to the potential hazards of the recombinant DNA research under consideration...
THIS WEEK, as the nation commemorates the 10th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King, it is fitting that we look closely at his life--the non-violence he preached and the example he set for the world. In that spirit, Harvard's decision to establish a King Lecture Series devoted to that end is commendable. So profound was the impact of his ideas on the consciousness of the country that continual examination of the man and his thinking is essential...
...decision in effect admits the existence of a tribe when no political and legal consequences would ensue. The decision expresses a calculated caution. The judge notes that because of the "severe consequences" of declaring the Indians a tribe--returning the land to the Indians--he believes he had to establish a rigorous definition of tribal status. But he also states in the decision that the Indians may still be considered a tribe "for other purposes, such as Federal aid programs...
Devore said the only real difference separating man from other animals is his use of language, since most other human characteristics are paralleled in various animal societies. "Thus we can see that animal societies establish a baseline out of which human behavior evolved," he explained...