Word: establishes
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...once had a graduate school student who asked me to set up a file on her unborn baby," Fitzsimmons says. "I told her that we didn't establish files for students until their junior year, but that I would be sure to note that [the unborn] was the first one in his class to express interest...
...possible to discern where the communists are headed by studying the legislation the party is preparing for action in the Duma. One proposal calls for renationalizing industries "that have been privatized contrary to law, the rights of labor collectives and the interests of the country." Another would establish workers' councils in every enterprise and give them the right to control "production, finances and distribution and uses of income." Other new laws would impose state-regulated prices, restore central planning of the economy and give the state a monopoly over foreign trade. If enacted and enforced, this program would utterly destroy...
...Apostles and Paul's Epistles were the best history of all: a Christian would no more consider asking whether Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead than question his status as the risen Messiah. But Martin Luther, in pioneering Protestantism, stressed that every Christian could and should establish his own relationship with Christ by the reading of Scripture. And from the 17th century on, Western civilization, which had previously understood itself according to faith, found a new way to apprehend the world: the precise calibration and cool skepticism of scientific rationalism. In time, scholars began to subject Jesus...
President Clinton, who spoke at the summit on its final day, acknowledged that attempts to establish national standards have been "less than successful." But if setting one goal seems impossible, what is to be done...
...Governors agreed to adopt their own "internationally competitive academic standards" within two years. The business leaders pledged that in one year they will begin asking for academic transcripts from job applicants and consider a state's educational standards when deciding where to open new plants. And all resolved to establish within 90 days an independent, nongovernmental body that will act as an "information clearinghouse," measuring, comparing and reporting on each state's annual progress...