Word: establish
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Emma Moriarty (Sally Field) is a poor divorced lady struggling to establish a riding stable on a rundown ranch she is renting with her last pennies. Her willingness to mend her own fences (literally), and muck out the barn while she's at it, exhibits her belief in old-fashioned self-reliance. Her good-natured sensitivity in demonstrating this among many other virtues to her adolescent son (Corey Haim) shows her to be a late-model parent, liberal and humane...
...been less surefooted in dealing with the relentless but ragtag Shining Path insurgency, which has killed more than 6,000 in five years. To weaken the rebels, he has promised new economic aid to the poverty-stricken Andean region where they are based, and created a Peace Commission to establish a dialogue with their leaders. Though it is by no means clear that government programs are responsible, military officials last week reported "a certain tranquillity" in the eleven-province emergency zone in which the guerrillas are most active...
...People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, or simply South Yemen, to distinguish it from the Yemen Arab Republic to the north. The only Arab country that explicitly calls itself Marxist, South Yemen (pop. 2 million) forged close ties with the Soviet Union and allowed the Soviets to establish a military base at Aden and a high-tech listening past on the island of Socotra, 300 miles offshore...
...drug abuse in industrial accidents, train crashes and highway pileups. Says Peter Bensinger, a former chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration who is now a leading consultant on drug abuse: "No one has a civil right to violate the law. Companies do have a right and responsibility to establish sound working conditions...
...topic for discussion. But none did, and initial expectations were low for the organization that sees itself as "a dynamic moral force on a global level." At its frequent best, PEN has indeed aided the release of writers imprisoned for their works, tried to lessen censorship, and helped to establish an international forum for national literature. But at its most portentous, the group can suggest a second-rate graduate school, where the lecturers outnumber the students. Even some of the much honored guests seemed resigned to unending seminars filled with such marrow-chilling words as alienation and creativity...