Word: establish
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...Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin Atlantic Airways. In the aftermath of the assault on Weir, who required 18 stitches, Branson engineered a British lifetime air-travel ban on Handy. As the industry convened last month in London to address the overall problem, he urged carriers to establish a worldwide air-rage database to blacklist the worst offenders. "There [must] be a deterrent against this behavior," Branson says...
Harvard students rallied outside Widener Library yesterday afternoon to protest a code of conduct aimed at protecting sweatshop workers, saying the code would not establish adequate labor standards for university-licensed products...
According to Rick Osterberg '96, who is coordinator of residential computing support for HASCS and is one of the leaders of the upgrade, "Two years ago, most of our computers were these terrible 486s that were already almost six years old. We used our annual fall survey to establish that the computer labs were being heavily used by students, and we were able to go to [Dean of the Faculty] Jeremy [R.] Knowles to obtain funding to upgrade the computer labs...
What is true about Monty Roberts is his ability to establish rapport with a wild, unridden horse and, within 30 minutes or so, "join up" with the animal to the extent that it will accept a saddle, bridle and rider. He observes the horse's body language and responds with his own motions to anticipate the animal's fears. Other trainers use versions of the technique. So did the hero of Nicholas Evans' weepy best-selling novel The Horse Whisperer, which later became a Robert Redford film. But though Roberts' book jacket bills him as "a real life horse whisperer...
...dignity that has been taken? What kind of range do these approaches have--how many people are actually affected by them? Does either of these methods work well towards reconstruction and societal reconciliation? Are trials simply the "spoils of war" of the victor, or do they really seek to establish the rule of law? Do the truth commissions allow perpetrators of tortures and rape to go unpunished, or do they invite true repentance and forgiviness...