Word: establish
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...begin in earnest this weekend not just across the Charles, where Harvard hosts Dartmouth, but—perhaps even more importantly—in Upstate New York as well, where first-place Cornell and second-place Colgate square off in a home-and-home series with the potential to establish either as the front runner from here...
This renewed commitment was especially evident in the second period. After trailing 2-1 at the end of the first period, Harvard scored four goals in a span of 3:43 to establish a solid 5-2 lead. Vaillancourt scored the second of the four goals—and the Crimson’s first power play goal of the night—on a cross-ice feed from sophomore defender Caitlin Cahow. The extra-skater tally at 15:04 would prove to be the game-winner for Harvard...
...problems this year in games after breaks,” said junior defenseman Peter Hafner, who notched the second of Harvard’s goals 16:39 into the first period. “We wanted to get off to a fast start in the first period and establish how we wanted the game to be played...
Less than than two months after former Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) administrator L. Paul Bremer received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a scathing audit by a longtime confidante of George W. Bush is bashing Bremer's agency for failing to establish "adequate financial controls," leaving some fiscal reporting systems "either weak or non-existent." The audit charges that the CPA left large portions of the $8.8 billion Iraqi treasury "open to fraud, kickbacks, and misappropriation of funds," according to a draft obtained by TIME. The report was written by Stuart Bowen, a lawyer from Texas who became special inspector general...
...Bush administration have sought to downplay expectations concerning the success of the elections. Officials have begun emphasizing the fact that the vote itself is only the first step in a long process of constructing a new government. The National Assembly still must take office, elect a prime minister, establish remaining government agencies and field a police force able to maintain security. It will also be charged with the monumental task of writing a constitution to facilitate elections later this year or in 2006. Any one of these steps may undermine the project of establishing a stable and free nation...