Word: establish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short, arbitrariness pervades the proposal. It is designed to hear cases in which there is no set precedent. Its decisions will establish "community standards." What this means is that the new body will legislate as well as judge, making up standards as it hears cases...
...believe it was wrong to establish contacts with a country of strategic importance or to try to save lives...
...Reagan recover? Can he establish control over a fractured and demoralized Administration, set an agenda that would give the nation and world a renewed sense of leadership and prevent the last 23 months of his term from becoming a limping and possibly dangerous procession into the twilight? Perhaps. But it will involve conveying to the American people that he now, finally, understands what went wrong and what mistakes he made, and providing convincing assurances that they won't happen again. The real necessity is that Reagan become again the active, engaged President he was at times, though only at times...
...minimal: he was present at a meeting with Reagan last year during which the idea of trading arms for hostages was discussed, and, according to George Shultz's account, did not oppose the notion. But he was more generally in favor of the strategy of using arms shipments to establish a relationship with "moderate" elements in Iran. Although Bush is one of four statutory members of the NSC, the conclusion was that he had no management responsibility in the affair. Said Member Edmund Muskie: "There were at most three meetings of the NSC to consider this policy, its consequences...
During the trial, Defense Lawyer Verges tried to show that the circumstantial evidence against his client was too inconclusive to establish his complicity. Moreover, two key French witnesses claimed that Abdallah was only a minor player in the F.A.R.L. and thus unlikely to meet the requirements for proving complicity under French...