Word: establishes
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According to conference materials, organizers have designed the event to both "train" and "empower" women leaders, as well as establish a system of contacts between women...
...news. New York's Giuliani may have sent out the wrong signal even before he was elected. While still a candidate, he addressed a wild demonstration of 10,000 out-of-uniform officers who assembled outside city hall to protest the decision by then Mayor David Dinkins to establish the city's civilian review board. After taking office, Giuliani was repeatedly accused of dragging his feet on hiring investigators for the board. Last year, when he tried to cut a fourth of the investigative staff, the city council said...
...master chief, the man in charge of clubbing the baby SEALs into fighting trim, with sardonic objectivity. We know where Scott's sympathies lie--he did, after all, make those terrific tributes to female capability, Alien and Thelma & Louise--but he wears them lightly. What he does superbly is establish a raw, compelling reality that transcends his movie's banal premises and predictable conclusion. That permits Moore to play, and us to feel, authentic pain, isolation and courage--shocking stuff to find in an action movie these days...
...widowed in 1942 after a dessert of poisonous cherries killed her husband. The tragedy did not slow her down for long. She lived exuberantly, enjoying chocolates, cigarettes and one-liners ("I've never had but one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it"). In 1996, as if to establish her claim to posterity, she recorded a rap CD, Maitresse du Temps (Time's Mistress...
...call euthanizing our pets humane, yet because of the court's ruling, we can't be humane to humans even when a person is pleading for release from unbelievable suffering. Safeguards must be put in place to prevent abuse, and Congress must establish the right to die for all who choose to exercise it. RANDY KEMNER Long Beach, Calif...