Word: establishes
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...Wellesley scholar says advocates of women's studies at Harvard have struggled for years to overcome such attitudes. Harvard was the seventh of the eight schools in the Ivy League to establish a women's studies concentration...
...study. The fact that they have no symptoms of AIDS is not so amazing, since HIV can lie dormant in the body for many years before it begins its deadly work. What is surprising is that the virus cannot be found in these women at all; it apparently cannot establish itself in their cells...
...Administration has not, however, joined the national majority that now says it favors cutting back on legal immigration. Nevada Senator Harry Reid, a rising Democratic star in the immigration wars, has introduced a bill that would establish both an annual limit of 300,000 newcomers, including "immediate relatives," and a national identification card...
After World War I, there were fears that millions of displaced Europeans, newly influenced by Bolshevism, would infect America with alien ideology. As a result, a series of racism-tinted national-origins laws passed during the 1920s established an annual immigration quota of 150,000 that favored established groups like the Germans and Irish. Some nationalities, notably the Japanese, were excluded entirely. The national-origins system was preserved in the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act, though that notorious law did establish tiny quotas -- 100 or so a year -- for such previously barred groups as Indians and Filipinos...
...Broadway is a more expensive environment, with higher union costs and fewer seats in the theater. According to Barry Weissler, while the Guys and Dolls team put together a business plan based on a five-year run, "historically, no revival runs more than about two years. We look to establish ourselves for one year...