Word: establish
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...March, the Massachusetts State Legislature gave its first approval to the amendment, which would define marriage as between one man and one woman but would establish civil unions for same-sex couples. The legislature must pass the amendment again in the 2005-2006 session before it is put to a statewide referendum...
Kirby said yesterday that one group will be charged with continuing to examine and organize general education at Harvard. It will consider how best to implement the report’s recommendation that Harvard establish a distribution requirement supplemented by broad “foundational and integrational” classes called the Harvard College Courses...
...possible it won't work? Yes." Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defense Secretary, conceding that the effort to establish a stable democracy in Iraq might fail...
Mayor Michael A. Sullivan opened the ceremony last night by noting that Cambridge had been at the forefront of gay rights before, voting previously to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and to establish one of the first domestic partnership ordinances...
...President's moral convictions are, no doubt, matters of true faith--and the Jordanian businessman is a member of an authoritarian establishment with much to lose if Islamic radicals or, faint chance, democrats take charge. But Bush's moral certainty almost seemed delusional last week in the vertiginous realities of Iraq. A distressing, uninflected righteousness has defined this Administration from the start, and it hasn't been limited to the President. Bush's overheated sense of good vs. evil has been reinforced by the intellectual fantasies of neoconservatives like I. Lewis Libby and Paul Wolfowitz, who serve Bush...