Word: establish
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Underlying this carefully guarded statement was the prospect that Egypt and Israel might establish working committees on substantive issues that could lead to what Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's National Security Adviser, has described as "Geneva Up": a peace conference at which most procedural and some substantive issues had been agreed upon in advance to preclude the possibility of failure. The alternative was "Geneva Down": an unfocused, probably contentious conference at which even basic procedures would be subject to intense wrangling. At week's end Foreign Minister Dayan flew to West Germany for a scheduled round of talks...
Frisoli promises to enforce health and zoning laws, establish an effective program for park and recreational development, and encourage city development through tax abatements...
...cradle-to-grave national health-insurance program, which Reagan describes as "the sperm-to-worm plan." At the same time, he preaches party unity to keep from scaring off Republican moderates. Says he: "Let's put an end to giving each other political saliva tests to establish the degree of our Republican purity." Says a close associate: "I feel certain that he would like to run again...
...1970s Ethiopia, under the late Emperor Haile Selassie, received substantial aid and arms from the U.S. But after the Emperor's overthrow in 1974 by a leftist junta, Addis Ababa's relations with the U.S. cooled. Despite their ties to Somalia, the Russians saw a chance to establish a presence in Ethiopia, which is almost ten times as populous as Somalia and whose ancient feudal society might prove more receptive to Soviet socialism over the long run than Muslim Somalia had been. Many observers think Moscow diplomats genuinely believed they could continue to have it two ways: maintaining...
Last week, after months of negotiations between the White House and liberal Congressmen, the President endorsed a compromise bill that would establish a national goal of cutting joblessness from its present 7% rate to 4% by 1983. Yet the bill, sponsored by Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey and California Democratic Congressman Augustus Hawkins, requires no specific steps to attain the 4% goal...