Word: establishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...line with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's philosophy that a government should not interfere with free markets. It also stemmed from the realization that BNOC was having little effect on prices. Commented London's Financial Times: "If BNOC had never existed, it would have been quite unnecessary to establish...
...Star Wars. The Soviets are determined to make SDI the centerpiece of negotiations. The U.S., by contrast, is eager to cut a deal on reducing existing nuclear stockpiles and then worry about still-to-be-perfected space weapons. Said National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane: "It will take time to establish, much less understand, our new strategic-defense concept. That understanding is what we are after in this round...
...their students directed back into mainstream education. When school boards consider projects beyond improvement of the local school, they reflect the values of 1980s material culture rather than free thought: the Los Angeles Board of Education has not founded any alternative schools since 1973, but in 1981 it did establish the Downtown Business High School...
...although the once again victorious Allies decided after World War II to establish the United Nations in New York City, Geneva soon proved indispensable as a European headquarters. For one thing, it was undamaged, and its shops were full of chocolates, cigarettes, watches, all the luxuries that were being stolen and bartered elsewhere in Europe. What better place to stage a conference...
...crime-ridden cities, many residents see no need to add to their woes by allowing vagrants to establish themselves in train and bus terminals and residential areas that are otherwise generally safe. In his 1975 book, Thinking About Crime, Harvard Professor James Q. Wilson says that the acceptance of vagrants, panhandlers and sleeping drunks on the sidewalk is the traditional sign that the cycle of urban decay is under way: informal controls break down, muggers and burglars move in, and stable families begin to move out. "Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person...