Word: establish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bruce-Novoa, the first scholar who will come to Harvard under the new program, started the Chicano Studies program at Yale in the early '70s, and he says he fought the administration for several years before they would establish a permanent program with faculty and financial support...
Breakfasts with each of the nine second-year class sections are arranged by the dean each year, say second-year students; but even then McArthur's diffidence and reluctance to speak in public sometimes counteracts his cursory efforts to establish direct communication with students...
Lawrence Sullivan, research associate with the John T. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, said the chaos in China may reawaken the country's dormant xenophobia. "Just because we establish relations with China doesn't mean it disappears," he said, adding that in times of crisis China often tries to close off its society from contact with the outside world...
Sander says the school will establish a research endowment fund to be used by the dean and an advisory committee to fund the neediest programs...
When three top party officials visited a hospitalized hunger striker, the angry student declared, "If you really wish to re-establish the Communist Party's prestige, you must first excise the official profiteers." Many Chinese courts have been trying to do just that. The judicial system handled 37,000 cases of profiteering last year, up 50% from 1987. More than 100 embezzlers and bribe takers were sentenced to death or life imprisonment...