Word: establish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the inside, a surrealist's scribbled message from hell. Parker's film is quite another thing: an outsider's report, not autobiography but psychodrama, with a texture as real as newsreel. And yet its plot skeleton bears similarities to Platoon. In both films, two strong men fight to establish American values in a hostile country, and to claim the soul of an innocent. In both films, the local nonwhites -- yellow or black -- are less a group of dramatic characters than a plot device, a shadow, a chorus, a landscape, an idea...
...different variety of cacao tree, which is less likely to die from fungus. Over the past five years, Anai has brought dozens of new varieties of cash crops to more than 20 communities in the Talamanca region, set up plant nurseries serving 1,500 people, and helped establish a 10,000-hectare wildlife refuge...
Given the hostile signals implicit in these facts and words, how should the U.S. proceed? In a decidedly nontraditional manner. With adversaries like Gorbachev, it is right and proper that negotiations begin without preconditions. With the P.L.O., however, it may be best to establish the bottom line in advance. As Kissinger suggests publicly, dealing with the P.L.O. requires a focus on substance, because "procedures will not give us a clue to whether there is a chance" for progress. The question requires an advance determination of the ultimate answer: What is Israel willing to give? What can it live with...
...meetings were called as a midterm review of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations, launched in the beach resort of Punta del Este two years ago. The purpose of the Montreal gathering, held under the auspices of the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: to establish guidelines for furthering free trade. Instead, last week's GATT meetings, involving delegates from 103 nations, were dominated by an inconclusive and bitter row between the U.S. and the European Community. The chief issue was an American demand that all nations agree to the total elimination of subsidies to farmers, which...
...warn against the application of strict faculty affirmative-action policies." I said that there were two purposes to affirmative action: to eliminate discrimination or to ensure representation. I said that the Committee needed to establish, as a ground, a clear statement of principles. And I said that representation was not the principle to be adopted in seeking faculty...