Word: establish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...genome centers. "It's largely an engineering project," Cantor explains, intended to produce tools for faster, less expensive sequencing and to develop data bases and computer programs to scan the data. Not to be outdone, Japan has set up a consortium of four high- tech companies to establish an automated assembly line, complete with robots, that researchers hope will be capable of sequencing 100,000 base pairs a day within three years...
...sister airline, Continental, will continue to honor Eastern tickets, as "Eastern continues to work with other airlines to help establish policies for acceptance of Eastern tickets," the company said in a statement...
...recent years, Radcliffe has increasingly been accused of neglecting undergraduate women by not taking an active stance on issues affecting women at Harvard. While women at Harvard struggled to establish a Women's Studies program, fought for greater campus security, protested gender discrimination and the "chilly classroom climate," or brought complaints against the nine all-male final clubs, Radcliffe sat silently by. As one undergraduate recently put it, "There's been nary a Radcliffe voice heard on any of these issues...
...addition to bringing women scholars to Harvard as it does now, Radcliffe should pressure Harvard to tenure more women and should establish more active programs for undergraduates about issues of gender discrimination. Radcliffe should continue and expand its networking resources so more undergraduate women will have the chance to meet alumnae, who can serve as both mentors and possible career connections...
...National Mediation Board, a federal agency that steps into deadlocked labor disputes, has tried in vain since January 1988 to bring the machinists and management closer together. As a federally mandated 30-day cooling-off period ticked down to the strike deadline, the mediators called on President Bush to establish an emergency board to examine the dispute, a move that would ! have delayed the strike an additional 60 days. The mediators pointed out the potential widespread impact of the strike, since the AFL-CIO has threatened to disrupt rail, bus and airline transportation across the U.S. in support...