Word: establish
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...fled or been killed to feed hungry troops. Instead, many animals moved to isolated swamp areas, and the southern armies had policies against shooting wildlife. Zebras and buffalo suffered drastic reductions, but elephants, ostriches, lions and leopards are thriving. Now Fay and Elkan are working with local authorities to establish policies that protect natural resources and attract travelers to see the migration. "Definitely," says Elkan, "tourism can happen here...
...carbon sequestration pilot project (which would trap carbon emissions underground) and make price gouging on oil and gas a federal crime. Ironically, it was meant to be the easy one of the two planned global warming bills. The second, expected later this summer, would set a cap on and establish reduction timetables for carbon emissions...
...school boards, give financial and quality control to the states and force each school to become an entrepreneurial competitor for students. It would change the American public school system from one that emphasizes rote learning to a system that encourages and tests for creative and critical thinking. It would establish new incentives-lots more money and more control over teaching methods-to lure the nation's top college graduates into teaching, with bonuses for those willing to teach in the poorest neighborhoods. It would encourage a longer school day and longer school year and would fund universal preschool...
...does much more than dream. Lucky enough to have supportive employers who gave her the freedom to pursue her interests, Unite not only released a studio-produced album of her own feel-good and catchy ballads in Tagalog and English last year; she even managed to establish a charity that has donated thousands of books and used computers to rural schools around her home town of Ballesteros. Starting from scratch, on her days off, she mustered funds and volunteers from across Hong Kong's social strata. "At first," she remembers, "people would ask me, 'What are you doing, thinking...
...Shultz says that he believes that "President Bush is trying to establish a sense of direction, but he's having a hard time doing it, and one reason is the fact we're so bogged down in Iraq." On Iran, I asked whether the Administration should consider negotiating directly with the ruling mullahs in Tehran, as Reagan did with the Soviets. "I think we should figure out a way to communicate," he says. "We've seen the beginning of that in the recent meeting in Baghdad. When you have two ambassadors meet in high-publicity setting it's not likely...