Word: establishing
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While Carstens urged Harvard to divest, Conway recommended that the University create a scholarly center on South Africa as well as offer more scholarships to South Africans of all colors. Harvard should also establish its own investment guidelines rather than simply using the classifications of the Sullivan Principles, Conway added...
...referenda ballots--which will also list a question asking if the city should establish a cable television authority to bid for the Cambridge franchise, and another non-binding measure concerning housing policy--are considered a low priority and counted separately
Your article "Negotiating a Build-Down" [Oct. 17] proved that the U.S. can formulate a united front on the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks. The President and Congress have finally demonstrated that they can work together to produce a proposal that will ultimately establish equilibrium for both superpowers...
...tapes establish that J.F.K. and his advisers did exactly that. The heavily censored records cover a morning and an evening meeting in the White House on Oct. 16,1962, the day after U.S. photo reconnaissance proved that the Soviets were installing nuclear missiles in Cuba. Initially, the planners more or less assumed that the U.S. would have to take direct military action. President Kennedy at one point described an air strike, at least on the missiles, as something "we're certainly going to do." His prime question then was whether the action could be kept limited or would have...
...make the task of crafting a bill that could pass Congress and be signed into law by Reagan look impossible. Accordingly, civil rights lobbyists are trying to drum up support for a concurrent resolution of both chambers that would take the commission out of the Executive Branch entirely and establish it in effect as an arm of Congress. It would have eight members, not six: four appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate (currently South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond, who is also chairman of the Judiciary Committee) and four by House Speaker Tip O'Neill. The resolution...