Word: establish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Urban Coalition, who actually proposed the switch in December at a Chicago meeting of black leaders, including Jackson, that was held to plan a summit to set a black agenda for the next century. Edelin says she hoped that encouraging the use of African American "would establish a cultural context for the new agenda we plan to set" at the summit, scheduled for April in New Orleans...
...resolution directs City Manager Robert W. Healy to establish a purchasing preference policy that avoids contracting with South Africa-related companies and to maintain a list "of all persons doing business with or in South Africa and Namibia...
...they should only be allowed to do so by lottery. Juniors as a class were dismissed from Science B-29, "Human Behavioral Biology," this year after having been dismissed from Foreign Cultures 48, "The Cultural Revolution," as sophomores last year. The only fair way to reduce enrollment is to establish a standard procedure, so that students are aware of what faces them when they walk into a crowded Core class...
...move is a major departure from the FDA's traditional practice of requiring rigorous tests, which can take up to seven years, to establish a drug's safety and effectiveness before granting approval. Black-market versions of the aerosol pentamidine have circulated for years, but the treatment has been studied in controlled clinical tests only since July 1987. The change of policy came after organized protests by AIDS patients, who argued that the Government's stringent regulations were blocking access to potentially lifesaving medicines...
Most professors, however, agree with Boone, whosays that there is always a loss when a lotteryhas to be held. "Every student represents such anopportunity, to establish a threshold is aproblem," he says