Word: establishing
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...choose repatriation. Britain's Conservative government, whose anti-immigration policies have been denounced as "oppressive" by its Labor Party opponents, is trying to head off a repeat of the 1981 Brixton riots. Police have abandoned some of the antagonistic practices of the past and have moved to establish better community relations, and modest amounts of money have been earmarked for the most blighted urban areas. The mayor of West Berlin has appointed a commissioner for German-Turkish relations. In The Netherlands, the Anne Frank Foundation (established in 1957 to save the house where the young Jewish fugitive wrote...
...impassioned plea reminiscent of John F. Kennedy's 1961 pledge to land a man on the moon within the decade, Reagan last week called upon Congress to endorse another leap into the cosmos and establish a permanent space station. He unveiled the proposal just before the tenth flight of the shuttle, scheduled to lift off from Florida on Friday. A highlight of the eight-day mission will be an untethered sortie into space by two astronauts using NASA's new manned maneuvering units, which are in effect self-contained space capsules with their own steering jets...
TONIGHT THE FACULTY will host an open meeting on a proposal to establish a comprehensive harassment policy for all members of the Harvard community. The proposed policy, which comes in the wake of close to two years of campus debate about sexual harassment, is a significant improvement over existing complaint channels and we urge all students, faculty and administration to endorse it at tonight's meeting...
...gained the support of 32 delegations. Libya, Syria and South Yemen boycotted the closing session, at which the invitation to Egypt was announced, but most delegates seemed delighted. Said a Pakistani: "Sadat is dead, and there's a new man in power who would desperately like to re-establish Egypt's position within the Islamic community." In the meantime, Egyptian officials declared that they hoped to meet with Jordan and the P.L.O. to seek a new approach for negotiating the return of the occupied territories...
...creating new firms and new jobs. Brittan called for a standstill on real-pay increases so that Europe can catch up competitively. Such a measure, he said, "would break the back of the unemployment problem." Chevalier confessed that one mistake to avoid repeating was France's attempt to establish an overall government-led industrial policy. This, he said, has mainly produced unnecessary official spending, especially in the nuclear-power industry...