Word: establish
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POLITICAL buffs will recall how President Bush called on New York voters during the past mayoral campaign to establish a "Republican beachhead" in New York. Republicans failed in this attempt and in several other election contests. What had begun as George Bush's Republican war ended last week as Ron Brown's Democratic two-pointer...
Vellucci also said he wanted to establish a committee to examine "who snatched up all the houses, who did a lot of grabbing" after World War II. He said he would call the group the "Pointing the Finger" Commission, prompting Danehy to ask, "Which finger...
...eight-year, 13,344-subject study, carried out by researchers at the Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas, is hardly the first to establish a link between moderate exercise and longevity. But it is considered especially significant. For one thing, it includes both men and women, in contrast to earlier, mostly male surveys. For another, it strengthens the evidence that exercise can ward off cancer, a relationship discovered only in the past few years. And, perhaps most important, it is one of the largest studies ever done that relied on an objective measure of fitness, not just participants' descriptions...
...time being, Manna said last week's election marked "the culmination of all the organization we did to establish a union...
...wolf's listing as an endangered species is the important difference between a Park Service plan and one floated by Idaho's Senator McClure. McClure has a problem, which is that wolves have been sighted frequently in central Idaho. If packs from Canada establish themselves in Idaho, as they have in Montana's Glacier National Park, they will be protected as an indigenous endangered species. Instead, McClure's plan would de-list wolves immediately, and let state game laws treat them as predators, outside designated havens in Idaho's Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness and in Glacier and Yellowstone parks. Environmental groups...