Word: establish
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Recent reports and lobbying in Washington mark the renewed vigor with which both Harvard and other schools are fighting federal policies. Universities have criticized President Reagan's attitudes toward higher education since he entered office, but recent efforts are the first time these scholars and educators have sought to establish comprehensive federal policies on their own terms...
...seasons. "It seems when they get things going," sighed the San Francisco pitcher Mike Krukow, "they're a carousel. They just keep chiming in runs." But knowing they took the season and the playoffs largely with pitching at the end, Cardinals Base Stealer Vince Coleman cautions, "You have to establish a hitting game before you can establish a running game...
Last year, under the administration of Chairman Richard S. Eisert '88, the council worked to establish a 24-hour word-processing center and Sunday hours for Widener Library. Both efforts were successful. Political issues, such as divestment and Harvard's closed governing bodies, were debated about as hotly as whether to ask the dining halls to provide cereal at every meal...
...Pauline moderated. "Dammit," said her husband afterward, "I think he's talked himself out of it." But his son telephoned the next day: "Dad, it's go." Recalls Albert Sr.: "I knocked a hole in the roof with a Comanche yell." Pauline explains, "I think my son had to establish that it would be his campaign and that he'd be doing it in his own way." Jane Eskind, an admiring fellow Tennessee Democrat, observes, "Albert Sr. sees in Al Jr. the fulfillment of his own dreams...
...economic slump that was exacerbated by last year's drop in petroleum prices. Nonetheless, the tiny island country did well enough to run up a $1 billion surplus with the U.S. in the first six months of the year. Singapore is strong in electronics and is trying to establish a biotechnology industry. It also aims to be a service center for Asia, specializing in banking, insurance and communications...