Word: established
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...organization that can't find balance between men and women or between formal authority and individual conscience," says Maxine Hanks, a fifth-generation Mormon whose book Women & Authority: Re-Emerging Mormon Feminism claims women exercised priesthood powers in the 19th century when church followers were struggling to establish themselves in the Utah desert. "Contemporary Mormon women should reclaim their lost authority," she says. For holding such views, however, Hanks and other women have been excommunicated...
Negotiators for mainly Tutsi rebels and Hutu government forces met twice without successfully establishing a truce in the two-month-old civil war in Rwanda. The rebels continued to tighten their stranglehold on the capital of Kigali and pushed their assault on Gitarama, where the government has relocated. Meanwhile, the Vatican appealed to the U.N. Security Council to establish a "safe area" -- the same concept tried with so little success in Bosnia -- around a large religious complex offering sanctuary to 38,000 Tutsis...
Epps wanted to distance himself from the bureaucracy and to establish a body that could mediate disputes through the approval of the conflicting parties, not the Dean of Student's office. Epps became just one of the mediators...
...mediators will try to establish relationships between different mediators and student groups or set up an open house in the fall, Cheng says. Epps calls these relationships "beats...
Rosovsky staunchly supported the conclusions of his committee, despite student protests. But on April 22, 1969, the Faculty voted to ignore the committee's recommendations and establish the department--"a truly unbelievable moment in Harvard's long history," Rosovsky says...