Word: establish
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...world. The presidential campaign was not a shining model of democracy but a no-holds-barred push to win at any cost - a sort of politics of mutually assured destruction. We should delay any future elections until the Democrats and Republicans agree to sign a peace treaty and re-establish the integrity of our nation. Daisy Swadesh Farmington, New Mexico, U.S. TIME's cover stated, "the stakes are higher than we could ever imagine." The magazine needs to be more judicious. Anyone who has studied the American Civil War or lived through the cold war and Vietnam knows there were...
...ambiguous enough to include the banning of rights imparted to same-sex couples in civil unions in addition to marriage. This in effect placed two questions before the voter in a single question, something illegal in several of the states. Voters in some states who wished only to establish their understanding of “marriage” may have unwittingly—and unwillingly—denied the basic civil rights enjoyed by straight couples to gay couples. Furthermore, because these referenda affected state constitutions, judicial review by state courts to salvage those rights may be impossible...
...down would be "like taking seed grain away from farmers," says Beijing University's Shen. Gray-market lending is even providing inspiration for a new generation of would-be private bankers. A group of scholars at Zhejiang's Communist Party School, a training ground for cadres, are proposing to "establish legal private banks" along the lines of underground institutions, according to one of the professors who helped draft the proposal...
Consequently, I was also deeply saddened at his death last week. My sadness was further compounded by my disappointment in Harvard’s response to his gift several years ago to establish a chair in Islamic Studies. That a small group was able to besmirch the name of such an extraordinary leader is just one more example of behavior that is becoming increasingly prevalent in the U.S. That The Crimson would choose to act as a passive conduit of biased information without feeling the need to uphold any standard of journalistic integrity, is also extremely disappointing...
...particular, Harvard has struggled to establish itself in the offensive zone, dumping and chasing in lieu of carrying the puck in or connecting on a series of crisp passes to pin defenses deep...