Word: establishes
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...University administrators didn't think there were enough qualified Faculty members to establish a high-caliber department of Afro-American studies...
While the Gaza Strip remained tense at week's end, P.L.O. leaders said they were sanguine that they would soon manage to quiet the enclave. Freih Abu Middain, a leading P.L.O. official in Gaza, estimated that it would take a week for Palestinian security forces to establish order. There was powerful motivation, since Israel has made further withdrawals in the West Bank conditional on the success of the Gaza-Jericho experiment. "We have an enormous responsibility to protect our achievements," said Lieut. Colonel Munther Irshaid, the P.L.O. officer in charge of municipal affairs in Jericho. "We cannot afford mistakes...
Heavy fighting rocked Rwanda's capital, Kigali, as shells hit a hospital, killing 30 people, and artillery blasted the airport. Diplomatic efforts to establish a cease-fire in the civil war have amounted to nothing more than "handwringing," an American official said. Meanwhile, the U.S. recommended that the deployment of 5,500 African peacekeeping troops as authorized by the U.N. Security Council be delayed until the U.N. provides more detail on the extent, purpose and cost of the mission...
Diversity is a term bandied about our campus with the reckless abandon that literary scholars toss around "intertextuality" or "gender" as a verb. We chair committees, establish organizations and plan events with the expressed purpose of bringing about greater "diversity" in the student population or the faculty. Diversity in this sense translates into a greater percentage of minority, female or homosexual members in the Harvard community at large...
...natural sympathy for the Carmichaels is sabotaged by crude and careless moviemaking. The first half of the film is a jumble of pointless anecdotes that fail to pull into a compelling narrative scheme or establish characters of any dimension. The boys squabble endlessly, humorlessly, inconsequentially, and Lindo and Woodard, both fine actors, are given only one note apiece to sound, respectively patience and impatience. In a middle passage, little Troy is sent to visit relatives in the South for no particular reason, except possibly to register Lee's disdain of smug bourgeois ways, and to contrast this with the fractiousness...