Word: establish
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...have lately become aware of a movement by a student lobby group, the Public Interest Research Group, to establish a chapter at Harvard through a petition drive. As I understand it, one aim of the drive is to procure a student majority 'mandate' to implement a 'negative checkoff' funding mechanism for the organization through each student's University term bill...
Assuming peace is a reality, some exiled Palestinians could resettle in Israel. Conversely, some Israelis would be allowed to establish communities in the West Bank, where there was a historic Jewish presence-near Hebron for example...
...centerpiece of the program is a proposal to establish so-called reference prices-in effect, minimum permitted prices-on 40 to 60 main categories of imported steel. Any metal entering the U.S. at quotes below the reference prices would be subjected to heavy antidumping tariffs. Most likely, the prices would be pegged to Japanese steel-production costs -and so the reference-price system might permit some continued dumping by European mills, whose costs are higher than those of the Japanese makers. Solomon pledged to have the reference prices set by year's end and to begin enforcement...
...agricultural department to innovative performing arts programs. Current President Clifton Wharton, first black to head large, mostly white U.S. university, leaving at year's end to take over bigger (340,000 students) State University of New York; successor must build up small ($ 12 million) endowment, raise money to establish new law and dentistry schools and attract more renowned senior faculty. Political acumen helpful in dealing with elected trustees. Salary negotiable; predecessor went from $47,500 to $65,000. Charming but small home in center of warm, friendly campus; car with driver. Apply Michigan State...
...imaginative adviser and friend of producers, playwrights and songwriters. In 1938 he helped form the Playwrights Producing Co., which gave its member-writers (Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood and others) control over their own works through bypassing producers. More recently Wharton worked with the Theater Development Fund to establish a reduced-price ticket booth on Times Square...