Word: establish
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...Public Health received a $20 million boost early in its campaign and managed to reach its goal of $125 million two and a half years ago. It has now raised $180 million. The Countess Albina du Boisrouvray, an honorary campaign co-chair for SPH, gave the $20 million to establish the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights...
...offense, the Crimson will probably try to establish a running game early and often against the tough Red Raider run defense...
...however, Harvard is unable to establish its running game, Wilford will have the task of leading the team to scores through...
Through these stories, Lemann brings us back to a time when the seemingly omnipresent acronyms of high school--SAT and AP, but also Kaplan and the Princeton Review--were struggling to establish themselves, explicitly demonstrating that the answers to questions of educational and testing philosophy were not obvious, and therefore need not be permanent. The past seemed just as confusing at the time as the present seems today, a fact that people often forget when studying history as a series of already completed events...
Sources say if the committee chooses a dean without a solid scholarly background, they risk marginalizing the new Institute before it has a chance to establish itself...