Word: establishes
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King Fahd of Saudi Arabia gave Harvard Law School $5 million to establish the "Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques" professorship of Islamic law and to fund research on Islamic legal systems...
...years as a college student, I discovered one of the best kept secrets of Roman Catholicism: its social teaching. My mind and heart were engaged as I read, "...the conviction grows...that it devolves on humanity to establish a political, social, and economic order which will increasingly...help individuals as well as groups to affirm and develop the dignity proper to them..." (Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, paragraph 9.) In a later paragraph this church document asserts: "A human being is more precious for what he is than for what...
...Crimson defense as well as its midfield must use its size to establish a physical presence and shut down high scoring Ivy teams like Pennsylvania and Princeton...
...break came just when FBI counterintelligence officials had concluded rather smugly that the end of the cold war had brought no great surprises about the degree to which the KGB had penetrated American secrets." He adds, "So specific was the information that the FBI was quickly able to establish the source's credibility." Among the spies, says Kessler, were "military men who had had top-secret information and officials of other agencies." The cases, he writes, are "enough to keep ((the FBI's intelligence division)) busy into the next century...
...years with the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, Clinton tried to challenge party orthodoxy by getting beyond the debate over the reasons for crime and talking more about the responses to it. He has long advocated some of the ideas that surfaced last week, like spending $100 million to establish a "police corps" that would encourage young people to serve as police officers for four years in exchange for college scholarships. And he has been a firm supporter of the death penalty, to the point of flying home in the middle of his presidential campaign to deny clemency for a convicted...