Word: establish
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...William Louisma, twentysomethings who live in the same sprawling development in the upper-class city of Wellington, part of Palm Beach County. The two, along with at least one other person, allegedly concocted a plan in February to buy 55 townhomes in Fort Lauderdale, inflate their values and establish "straw borrowers" whose incomes were pumped up to qualify for the big loans. The gang reportedly hoped to make as much as $8 million in profits after they got the loans and then abandoned the homes to foreclosure...
...recognize this failing in movies with other graduates of SNL. Trained at the Second City improv company, blossoming on late-night TV, they created or inhabited recurring characters who had five minutes to establish themselves. Even the most amusing of these characters, if they were to be expanded, were suited more to half-hour sitcoms than to feature films. But that's where the Blues Brothers, the Coneheads, Stuart Smalley, Pat, Mary Katherine Gallagher and the Roxbury guys went, not always justifying their films' running time. Leaving SNL for movies means you can't go back, which deprives the show...
...secular-left Awami League, took the unprecedented step of calling for even Hasina's release from prison. They bridle at the caretaker government's undemocratic attempts to reform democracy from the top down. "Just see the U.S.," says Jamaat's Ali Ahsan Mojaheed. "It took hundreds of years to establish fair democratic norms there. We also need time...
...Since most research institutions and medical centers establish their own conflict of interest policies—the Medical School's policies are independent of those of its affiliated hospitals—Grassley is pushing for a set, national standard...
...Japanese citizens oppose changing the constitution to allow the nation to establish a military. Such a change would overturn the government's policy of not having a traditional military, an edict that was established following the end of World...