Word: establish
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...either way, the long-term political benefits that could result from simply proposing a tax-reform plan are significant. By casting the Republicans as the party that defied the special interests for the benefit of the ordinary voter, Reagan hopes to re-establish the G.O.P. as the majority party for the first time in more than half a century. Optimistic Republican strategists believe they can finally rid the party of the country-club conservative label that has clung to it since the days of Coolidge and Hoover. "The President has in his hands the weapon with which to forever dismantle...
Dores is an impressionist expert at a London auction house who has been sent to New York to help increase business in that prestigious and lucrative field. In town just long enough to establish a ruinous double love life, he is ordered to the Deep South to close a deal for some Sisleys and Vuillards belonging to a crusty old patriarch named Loomis Gage. For Gage, read Snopes; Henderson is soon in far beyond his depths of courage or cunning with this moody, devious clan. The old man's fortune comes from some patents he took out on parking...
Reagan and Gonzalez seemed to establish an instant rapport, and even traded anti-Communist jokes over lunch. Reagan told an old one about a Soviet farmer who claims his potato crop is so abundant "it reaches to the foot of God." When a visiting commissar reminds the farmer that "there is no God," the local replies, "There aren't any potatoes either." Gonzalez responded with the one about Karl Marx returning from the grave and going on TV in Moscow to say, "Workers of the world--forgive me!" The First Lady let her hair down as well. During a visit...
...making decisions which concern the community as a whole or any part of the community, officers are expected to consult with those affected by the decisions. Failures to meet these responsibilities may be profoundly damaging to the life of the University. Therefore, the University community has the right to establish orderly procedures consistent with imperatives of academic freedom to assess the policies and assure the responsibility of those whose decisions affect the life of the University...
...President been so confident he was right. There are plentiful hazards in that, but also many assets for a democratic leader. Reagan would not have chosen as one of his favorite messages the Reinhold Niebuhr line that Carter used to quote: "The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world." Reagan is not a big ambiguity...