Word: establish
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...self-esteem damaged and her determination waning, Walker is close to becoming a casualty in the war on social promotion in America's public schools. The idea driving the assault--that the performance of students can be improved if schools establish standards and insist that kids meet them before moving on to the next grade--has a simple, sound-bite toughness. It appeals to parents and teachers at a time when frustration with student underachievement is boiling over. Distressing test results released this spring in states like Louisiana (where 40% of eighth-graders flunked the state's exam in math...
...still too early to tell, but final clubs soon may not sit astride the Harvard social scene like the Goliaths they once were. But in response to their increasingly exclusive guest policies, undergraduates are slowly beginning to establish other social clubs...
...received notice that the University would respond to its demand for disclosure during the rally. PSLM leaders are now working with the University to establish a suitable monitoring system. While Harvard has proposed using the Fair Labor Association for monitoring and Price Waterhouse Coopers as an accounting firm, PSLM is holding out for a truly independent monitoring system...
...important for me to establish that this is my campaign," she said in a recent New York Times interview. "It's important that I go solo here for a while. Bob will certainly be willing to do his share of campaigning, but I'll be making the decisions...
...intervention, it has provided Yugoslavia with only moral support. It did not postpone or cancel Premier Zhu Rongji's visit to the U.S. even though NATO had launched its air raids against Yugoslavia. This shows that, at least at this point, the Chinese government was trying its best to establish a stable, long-term and constructive relationship with the U.S. and other major Western powers. It did not wish to see accidental factors cause a deterioration of such an uncertain relationship...