Word: establish
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...does not specialize in immigration work may not have enough expertise. The A.I.L.A. has a screening process and a three-year waiting period to make sure new members meet both ethical and competency standards. Beyond that, it is urging other states to follow the example of Texas and establish board certification for immigration lawyers, which would create a list of trustworthy, reliable attorneys. But, admits Denver's Robert Heiserman, A.I.L.A.'s ethics committee chief, immigration law is so baffling that even "a good lawyer will be wrong in a substantial number of cases...
...Perot has indicated a willingness to come up with absolutely incredible sums of money to establish a museum in Dallas. We [at the Peabody] thought we might be able to work with him to set up some adjunct facility and bring our collection into the public eye," said Bruce Heafitz'62, a member of the Peabody's visiting committee, an advisory body to the museum...
Unsuspecting Schinus boosters have since learned that the Brazilian pepper is a hardy trespasser, resistant to burning and with a proclivity for overrunning cleared land. It now covers thousands of acres along the Everglades' Atlantic and Gulf coastlines and has begun to establish itself among coast-loving mangroves. This worries Robert Doren, a research-management specialist at the park. "Many game fish and shellfish come in to feed or breed among the roots of the mangroves," he explains. "Without the mangroves, you might see the end of most of the estuarine fishery in south Florida...
Three years after former Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky set up a committee to establish the burgeoning, multi-disciplinary field here, Harvard remains the only Ivy League institution without any sort of women's studies program. Although the committee was empowered to tenure a professor jointly in women's studies and another discipline, it has yet to snag any topflight scholar. Last spring Harvard lost renowned feminist literary critic Elaine Showalter to Princeton, which has demonstrated its commitment to the field. Apparently the committee has become bogged down, holding out for a savior both to fill this single chair...
Fortunately, the hard times that followed World War I did not materialize after World War II, despite the gloomy prophecies of some noted economists. As a result, we were able to establish ourselves in our trades, professions and callings with reasonable success. Some of us, but not many, were recalled for service during the Korean War--we were getting a bit too long in the tooth for combat at the time, of the deeply tragic and mistaken enterprise, the war in Vietnam...