Word: establishes
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Even if some teams have no money, how did the Montreal Expos, with the second-lowest payroll, establish the best record in baseball before the season was canceled...
...barren deserts of the Middle East that yielded Bechtel's biggest prize to date--oil. The company seized upon the opportunity by building much of the Arab world's modern oil-producing infrastructure. McCartney reports that even as Bechtel was working hard to establish cozy ties with Saudi Arabian King Ibn Saud, former employees of the company were involved behind the scenes. Several worked for the U.S. Export-Import Bank, a government agency that subsidizes American corporate ventures abroad, to facilitate financing for the enormous projects...
...supposed to be a landmark meeting -- a harmonious gathering of nations to establish the principle that the key to curbing population growth lies in giving women more control over their own health and reproduction. Instead the International Conference on Population and Development, being held in Cairo this week, was in danger of falling apart before it even got started. An unusual convergence of interests between Roman Catholic and Muslim leaders put the organizers of the United Nations-sponsored conference on the defensive around the flash points of abortion and sex education for teens. At least two Prime Ministers from Islamic...
...vocal presence at the conference. Last week the Pope's chief spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, accused Vice President Gore of misrepresenting the U.S. position on abortion. Referring to a recent speech in which Gore stated that "the U.S. has not sought, does not seek and will not seek to establish any international right to abortion," Navarro-Valls said, "The draft document, which has the United States as its principal sponsor, contradicts, in reality, Mr. Gore's statement." To bolster his claim, Navarro-Valls cited a U.N. proposal that women "have access to safe, effective, affordable and acceptable methods of fertility...
...Gore, head of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Conference on % Population and Development opening this week in Cairo. Papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the conference's draft document, principally sponsored by the U.S., "in reality contradicts Mr. Gore," who pledged that the U.S. will never try to establish a universal right to abortion...