Word: establishes
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Nearly seventy-nine years ago, in another July President Wilson faced a similar situation. On July 28, 1915, President Wilson sent the Marines to establish Marines faced demobilized Haitian troops who terrorized the countryside. That long Haitian summer ended in August many years later...
...Peter B. Machinist, the Hancockprofessor of Hebrew and other Oriental languages,the course will examine the "biblical book of Jobalong with related texts, ancient, medieval andmodern...establish[ing] the literary andphilosophical traditions in which Job was composedand the literary and philosophical legacy it hasleft," according to the official description. Itis scheduled to be taught in the fall...
...that matter. Zhirinovsky likes to complain and publicly denounce democratic reforms and institution, but he offers the people no viable alternative solutions, merely an attitude of "I'll deal with it later." He enjoys the bawdy, aggressive style of politics, but he hasn't been able to firmly establish his odious cult of personality...
Arafat's visit was scheduled for just three or four days. Soon he will have to return to establish a permanent presence in the territories that Israel captured in the 1967 war. He and his colleagues will have to construct a functioning government on the first bits of occupied land handed back for Palestinian self-rule. In the teeming and poverty-ridden Gaza Strip and the tiny West Bank enclave of Jericho, the P.L.O. must prove that it can make a success of governance. If that goes well, Israel has promised to hand over the whole of the occupied West...
That is exactly what the Palestinians who live in the occupied territories are afraid of. They consider themselves high achievers, entrepreneurs, educated and democratic, and they swear they will establish the first true Arab democracy. They now have their chance to prove it, and they are worried that they may end up with another Arab autocracy like Libya, Syria or, at best, Egypt. Arafat's established style of leadership does not reassure them...