Word: established
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Other questions seem downright strange. The most bizarre reads: "What do you feel is the most essential quality for a fictional character to possess in order to establish contact with an audience?" Alarmed to discover that final exams are not over, I muddle through the form, read through the excerpt from the play, and anxiously await my turn...
...years ago, the Cambridge City Council voted to establish the CRB following charges of racist police conduct.Cambridge officers arrested eight Black youths andcharged them with assaulting a cyclist. The boys'parents claimed their children had beenarbitrarily arrested because they were Black...
...abroad that they would like. When the Chicago Board of Trade closes at 3:15 p.m., for example, it is 6:15 a.m. in Tokyo, and most Japanese investors are still in bed. To close the time gap, the board's directors last week approved a new proposal to establish evening trading hours. Under the plan, futures and options on U.S. Treasury bonds and notes could be traded between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. (8 a.m. to 11 a.m. in Tokyo) Monday through Thursday and for an additional hour during the months when daylight saving time is in effect...
...this version of how the Iran affair unfolded, the CIA turf argument evolved into a dispute over whether to trust Manucher Ghorbanifar, the expatriate Iranian merchant and middleman who had offered to help the U.S. establish contacts in Iran. CIA activists in the agency's counterterrorism program supported the use of Ghorbanifar but eventually were outmaneuvered by the agency's Middle East operations officers, who waged a campaign to discredit the Iranian. Once Ghorbanifar was cut out of the delicate negotiations and the operatives at the Iran desk had prevailed in their efforts to have the U.S. bargain directly with...
...reasons date back to 1953, when Djilas, then Tito's heir apparent, began criticizing the regime he had helped establish. Djilas' denunciations were eventually published abroad in his articles and books, including The New Class. Djilas was jailed several times, spending a total of nine years behind bars. He was finally set free in 1966, but since then has continued to criticize the Yugoslav government. As recently as 1984 he was detained by police...