Word: establish
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...Harvard women’s hockey team combined flashy skills with gritty resilience to establish itself as one of the premier teams in the nation this past season, but in the end a winter of high expectations culminated in heartbreak.After a hot start and a strong showing in the regular season was cooled by an early exit from the ECAC playoffs, the Crimson sought redemption against top-ranked Wisconsin in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in the hostile confines of the Kohl Center in Madison, Wis.What ensued was a battle of epic proportions. Harvard proved its mettle against...
...planned economy, the Fainsod system—with its myriad dispersed committees—seems to have created confusion for students seeking a direct avenue to gather and voice a collective opinion. Looking for a more effective, centralized organ of student governance, undergraduates voted in 1978 to establish a 96-member body known as the Student Assembly. Though founded with optimism and ratified by student referendum, the Assembly never received official recognition from the University, nor did it receive any formal powers or funding. That the new body’s influence was accordingly hamstrung is relatively clear...
...TIME: So, you too are a partisan. Do you have any sympathy for the argument made by Christian activists that our culture and courts favor non-belief, and that Christians need redress to re-establish a level playing field...
...asked that question of the screenwriters, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and the director, Gore Verbinski, the answer would be different, For their film is not so much thought out as strung together - colorful incident upon colorful incident, but without logic, gathering suspense or any attempt to establish emotional connections between audience and actors. I must say, it's as boring to type out criticism of that kind as it probably is to read it, since some close variant of it could be written week-in, week-out every summer movie season. It's tempting to conclude with a joke...
...this leftie who's still a practicing Catholic. Or how about the threat of climate change and the waters rising over Moore's Manhattan home. What if he were to blend the two issues? He could take as his text this quote from God, straight from the Bible: "I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth...