Word: establishes
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...Undergraduate Council might be able to improve the situation. The council has endorsed a revised calendar plan which would schedule fall semester exams before winter break, with a longer intersession and significant Reading Periods. The student affairs committee is now negotiating with the Committee on Undergraduate Education to establish a proposal to submit to the Faculty Council this spring...
Multiculturalism is one of the most politically charged and ubiquitous buzzwords bandied about in academia today. The underlying concept represents the attempt to weave a social fabric more just than the one we now wear. Unfortunately, current efforts to establish a more diverse curriculum will only produce a more ethnically charged and divisive atmosphere...
...specifics of Buell's proposals excited those worries. The dean sought to establish a system in which all non-native English speakers would be testedfor English skills and provided with trainingbefore they can work as TFs within the Faculty ofArts and Sciences...
...Clinton Administration wonders how much Russia's new assertiveness derives from the struggle for reform taking place in Moscow. Under growing pressure from nationalists like Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russia might be seeking to re-establish its empire by meddling belligerently in the affairs of its neighbors. Or it could be trying to use its influence to bring peace to the troubled periphery, which would benefit Russia's own uncertain stability...
...Administration is taking a marketing approach. By using its purchasing power to lower the cost of Clipper technology, and by vigilantly enforcing restrictions against overseas sales of competing encryption systems, the government is trying to make it difficult for any alternative schemes to become widespread. If Clipper manages to establish itself as a market standard -- if, for example, it is built into almost every telephone, modem and fax machine sold -- people who buy a nonstandard system might find themselves with an untappable phone but no one to call...