Word: establish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night for chest pains," said one federal investigator about the arrests on racketeering charges of nine New York City mobsters, including the leaders of the five Mafia families in the city. U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, who brought the indictments, suspects that the Mafiosi were trying to establish a record of illness in hope of proving they are too ill to stand trial or to endure imprisonment if convicted. Several, in fact, do have | various illnesses, including heart ailments. "If a guy claims he's sick and, like Dellacroce, he looks sick, we take him to a hospital," said the investigator...
...addition to the South African-issue, the ACSR is considering resolutions calling for the University to establish specific guidelines for investments in companies with military contracts and companies involved in nuclear energy, Sherwin said...
Though tanning parlors do their biggest business from January to May, catching indoor rays is becoming a year-round pastime. Some palefaces like to establish a base tan before going on vacation; others simply prefer the tanning parlor to a trek to the beach. "I used to call in to work sick so that I could lie out in the sun," says Lola Lanza, 41, of Houston. "Now I can just come here on my lunch hour." Jeannie Frazier, 25, who spends $60 a month to cultivate her tan, maintains that a salon is "better than...
...Vietnamese now apparently intend to establish military camps along the Thai-Kampuchean frontier in an effort to keep arms and other supplies, which filter through Thailand, from reaching the resistance fighters. Thai military observers are skeptical, however, that Hanoi will be able to maintain its hold on the area once the dry season ends in April. Said General Salya Sripen, commander of the Royal Thai army's eastern forces: "I think the Vietnamese border units will be in difficulty by the beginning of the rainy season. The Khmer Rouge will attack them from the interior...
...associated with the Khmer Rouge, a group that many Kampucheans still despise for their atrocities while running the country between 1975 and 1978. ; The latest refugee contingent will probably not be sent to Khao I Dang, the main Thai camp for Kampucheans, nor are the Thai authorities eager to establish a special settlement. Said a Thai army major at the border, perhaps overoptimistically: "We will keep them for a while. Then we will send them back...