Word: establish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign was peaceful and enthusiastic, carried out by the candidates with gentlemanly regard for the rules of the new game. Socialist González, who favors open-necked shirts and casual jackets, brought American-style campaigning to Spain, jetting about the country to rallies in a chartered plane. Seeking to establish his party as the major alternative, he concentrated his fire on Fraga's Popular Alliance and Suárez's coalition. He charged that 80% of the U.C.D. candidates were interchangeable with those of Fraga's party?like "Pepsi and Coca Cola...
...doughty Norwegians also have become embroiled in a series of diplomatic and territorial disputes with their giant neighbor. The touchiest is the issue of how to establish their areas of control in the Barents Sea and its continental shelf. Not only do the Soviets want to protect their strategic position around Murmansk, they also seek increased fishing rights and access to the potential oil and gas reserves in the 59,870 sq. mi. under dispute. After seven years of negotiations on the question, says a Norwegian diplomat, "we've got absolutely nowhere...
...went, she listened carefully-and urged heads of state and their minions to express themselves freely. "You can be blunt," she would say. "Go ahead, that's what I'm here for." Throughout her 13-day tour of Latin America and the Caribbean, Rosalynn Carter managed to establish a frank rapport with her hosts. She achieved her goal of convincing top leaders that President Carter wants to improve long-neglected relations with Latin nations...
...Dixie Dancekings) deal in broad comedy and simple emotions. Generally they just place their hero in one or more fast-moving vehicles while motivating one or more square characters to give chase to him. Between crashes, Reynolds is given a series of wisecracks that establish his basic screen character-shrewd, laid-back, a tad reckless and a devil with women...
Jackson added that the quality of the class also helps to establish the eight-year-old Public Policy program as a substantial training course for economic and political analysis of the formation of public policy. S.D.C...