Word: establish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hyunjune Seung) is a Chinese American filmmaker who evades his Asian roots yet also refuses to assimilate into mainstream American culture. Instead, Tam strives to establish a Black American identity. He adopts an urban Black speech pattern, gives "high fives" rather than shaking hands, and chooses as his idol a Black boxer named Ovaltine...
...Everything is ready to go, except that there is not a building," Herold said. "I've been looking for several years and haven't found one, so I'm reluctant to put a date" on when the city will establish a permanent shelter, Herold said...
...group invited two Cambridge citizens to join its investigative mission because of the pending sister-city relationship, said Freireich. As of last night, both Cambridge and San Jose Las Flores had invited each other to establish the relationship, but no formal ceremony has formally united them...
...athletic performance or scientific achievement. Such awards should of course serve the purpose of celebrating those who have made a lasting contribution to art. But they should serve a higher function as well. Awards are not for those who receive them but for those who do not; they establish a cannon of taste, set a standard for quality in artistic achievement and defy the aspiring artist in the audience to come up with something better. Awards should be a self-effacing event, a reward of past achievement and, more importantly, a challenge to those who have failed to reach...
However, the CRR was also originally seen as a precedent-setting body. According to its charter's preamble, the CRR would "help to establish a body of precedent and a species of common law for the academic community...