Word: establish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pavlon said Harvard may establish a graduate program in the near future because of demand. New York University and Emory University already offer masters degrees and Ph.D.'s in Women's Studies, she said...
Bush won some respect for attaching his prestige to the knotty education issue, but many Governors are still waiting to see whether the President will make the tough choices necessary to establish education as a genuine priority. Some wonder, for example, why he retains the so far ineffectual Lauro Cavazos as Education Secretary. They also wonder why a self-proclaimed education President would propose, in effect, to cut federal education spending $400 million, adjusted for inflation...
Some researchers raise serious doubts about the methodology of guerrilla drug tests. Project Inform is strongly criticized for bypassing an initial phase to establish Compound Q's safety before proceeding to larger, therapeutic dosages and for not having the trials reviewed by an external monitoring group. Says Jere Goyan, dean of the University of California at San Francisco School of Pharmacy and a former FDA commissioner: "If you get people taking these drugs willy-nilly around the country, you'll lose valuable information, and it will be at the expense of future patients...
...wild-eyed liberal by the standards of his family and its Dutch settler forebears, Willem de Klerk publicly -- and constantly -- urges that apartheid be replaced by black majority rule. A former Dutch Reformed pastor and editor who now teaches journalism at Rand Afrikaans University, he helped establish the liberal opposition Democratic Party in April. Although his brother's career was at stake, Willem voted for the Democrats in September's election. After the ballots were counted, F.W.'s National Party barely retained its four-decade grip on power...
...member panel concluded 20 months of deliberations Monday by issuing a report calling on the university to establish numerical 10-year affirmative action targets. A Harvard faculty committee issued a similar report on minority and women faculty in March, but it explicitly rejected numerical hiring goals or targets...