Word: established
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...bison and elk are virtually gone, and preserving what remains of the prairie has long been a challenge for conservationists. An effort to establish a tallgrass park at a site in Kansas foundered seven years ago because of local opposition. Ranchers were reluctant to surrender commercially exploitable land...
...Chinese laundry--more precisely, an American-style laundry-dry cleaning shop--will soon open in the People's Republic. Fred P.C. Chao, 66, a Chinese-born owner of Korakleen, a small San Francisco-based cleaning chain, says that his company will establish a combination Laundromat and dry cleaner this September in Tianjin, China. A coastal city located about 80 miles east of Peking, Tianjin was Chao's hometown. If his first store proves successful, ^ he hopes to open between ten and 100 more throughout the world's most populous country. Easy on the starch, please...
Harvard has long resisted efforts by some faculty members to establish a undergraduate concentration or a faculty appointment to study women's issues. Opponents have argued that such a field is too broad and is inseparable from history, literature and other academic areas...
...Miss Manners writes books of spiky social advice. "It's very natural to enjoy tradition, and it was phony and unnatural when people said everything that came before me was wrong." Setting sail in the prevailing wind and recognizing that "a wedding is a wonderful place to establish a good family feud that will last twelve generations." In September, Martin will release a video, Miss Manners' Guide to a Charmingly Correct Wedding...
...hope to establish more surely the location of some of the first structures [of Harvard College]," says Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology Stephen Williams, who will be teaching the course along with John Stubbs, a teaching fellow in anthropology. Since there are no maps remaining from the time, artifacts can provide provides the only cartographical information...