Word: established
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yassin massacre in a village in the Jerusalem district, Israeli law refuses building permits to native Palestinians in Jerusalem, legally deemed foreigners, and confiscates Palestinians' residence permits. This has resulted in an artificially high proportion of Jews in the Holy City. Furthermore, East Jerusalem has been shamelessly gerrymandered to establish a fictive Jewish majority. Finally, their claim that there existed a Jewish majority in the Palestinian city in 1840 is patently false. In fact, the British Census from almost a century later, in 1931, report that only 41 percent of the residents of Jerusalem were Jewish...
...Kurt (or, even worse, some sort of humanist Dianetics). Popping up all over the book, absurd little litanies such as "something the cat drug in" (what people, especially scientists, like to make each other feel like) or "a dog's breakfast" (Kilgore Trout's expression for the human brain) establish a familiarity that helps the reader adjust to the author's inexhaustible outrage at the evils of the modern world...
...National Organization of Women (NOW) has dedicated itself, nationally and in its state chapters, to "exposing" both PK and covenant marriage as a thinly veiled attack by the Religious Right on women's rights, or as an attempt to re-establish patriarchy. An example of the fanaticism with which NOW follows this course is its powest subdivision, the "Promise Keepers Mobilization Project...
...company has 12 teams of physicians and ethnobotanists working year-round to establish relationships with native healers in 40 countries throughout Africa, Southeast Asia and South America. Skeptics, most of whom work for competing drug companies, suggest that Shaman cannot depend on primitive healers, who are seen as a cross between country doctors and clerics...
...Crimson is not going to shy away from running at the Engineers' defensive front. Murphy is eager to establish an offensive balance and provide Harvard's quick, young running backs with a chance to step out Hu's shadow and showcase their own abilities...