Word: establish
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American schools should establish clear academic aims for students and teachers, Sizer said. "Schools have to have visible goals," he said. "That is, goals that kids can understand...
...same time he was curtailing exorbitant demands on his country's exchequer, Gorbachev was trying to establish peaceful conditions around the country's borders. Simply enforcing totalitarianism on restive East bloc neighbors was no longer a satisfactory solution; their own vast economic and political troubles were becoming an insupportable drain on Soviet resources and attention. Perhaps most important, Gorbachev recognized that it was essential to enlist economic, technological and managerial assistance from the West. The price of that was a curtailment of cold war aggression and regional agitation...
...SWAPO supporters chanted "Freedom is in our hands" at noisy celebrations in the capital of Windhoek, the guerrillas were coaxing donkeys carrying rocket launchers and other artillery through the thick sand of the bush. According to captured prisoners, SWAPO commanders told their troops that UNTAG would allow them to establish military bases in Namibia, where they would be "confined to barracks" like the South African battalions. But their deployment was a flagrant violation of the cease-fire agreement, which calls for SWAPO forces to remain north of the 16th parallel, some 100 miles beyond the border...
Exiled SWAPO leader Sam Nujoma insisted that his men had already been inside the country, but his eleventh-hour bid to establish a military presence made little sense. Militarily, the guerrillas invited maximum reprisals by Namibian security forces that were all too ready and able to oblige. Politically, the bloody incursions gave the guerrillas' opponents ammunition to challenge their claim that they are the "sole and authentic" representative of Namibia's 1.25 million people...
Afew months ago, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and Rep. Dave McCurdy (D-Ok.) introduced a bill that would establish a national program of voluntary service. The Citizenship and National Service Act of 1989, if enacted, would mobilize the nation's youth to help meet important national military and civilian needs, while at the same time promoting upward mobility through expansion of federal support for higher education, job training or housing for the program's volunteers...