Word: establish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report doesn't establish how much money was actually diverted from the arms sales to the Contras or whether Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, the White House aide who was the purported engineer of the diversion, was acting alone or with orders from above, NBC said...
Last week city officials announced plans to establish a new coordinating office that would match the needy with shelters and agencies at a cost of about $23,000. The office will use donated space at the former Off The Wall Cinema on Pearl St., which closed early this winter...
Janzen has observed that dry forests can re-establish themselves. They need only to be protected from heavy grazing, overhunting and fires set annually by local residents to clear the land. If the forest is allowed to grow back naturally, a closed canopy forms in about 20 years. Aided by planted seedlings, he estimates, regeneration would take only a decade. Rejuvenated dry forest attracts a wide variety of animals, which, in turn, help disperse seeds. In Santa Rosa, the biologist has counted 170 species of birds; 700 species of plants; about 13,000 species of insects, including 3,140 species...
...obvious disadvantages of a mechanized society aside, the fact is that some of our more recent machines have allowed people to publish their own books, to produce their own films, to accept their own diversity. More significantly, they are encouraged to do those things. Eventually we will need to establish a new unity of thought, if our nation is to progress into yours with some improvement. For the moment, however, the effects of regaining individual responsibility are liberalizing, even though it is said that we live in severely conservative times...
...July 3, 1985, David Kimche, then director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, came to see McFarlane in Washington. Kimche suggested that the time was ripe for the U.S. to establish communication with elements in the Iranian government who were willing to consider a new relationship. (Kimche has said publicly that McFarlane had approached him earlier with the same idea.) Kimche had already been in touch with the Iranians through a shadowy network: Khashoggi, Manucher Ghorbanifar -- an expatriate Iranian arms dealer -- and Israeli arms merchants were all part of it. The Israeli government, said Kimche, had confidence these Iranian contacts...