Word: establishes
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...Says spokesman Gregory J. King of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, one of the largest gay-rights lobbying groups: "This is a landmark study that can be very helpful in increasing public support for civil rights for lesbian and gay Americans." Some legal scholars think that if gays can establish a genetic basis for sexual preference, like skin color or gender, they may persuade judges that discrimination is unconstitutional...
Fear of research fraud, however, has led some professors to establish a more hierarchical structures inside their laboratories. This way, researchers with Ph.D's check on graduate students seeking Ph.D's, who check on undergraduate researchers...
Months ago, the White House gave up its naive notion that Clinton might establish personal rapport with Perot. For the President to attack him frontally is also futile. So the Clinton circle is studying Perot's constituency with extensive polling and focus groups, looking for ways to win over a large segment of it. The main conclusion: only when Clinton demonstrates that he can lower the deficit and genuinely reform government will he get a hearing from Perot's minions...
...reform campaign spending in House and Senate races. Though Democrats agreed to strip the bill of most provisions for public financing of congressional races, the Senate version would limit contributions by corporate and other political action committees, bar lobbyists from making contributions to lawmakers whom they lobby and establish voluntary ceilings on campaign spending. The House considers a similar bill next month...
...money will be used to establish the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques endowed professorship of Islamic law and will also help fund research on Islamic legal systems...