Word: establishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, election-year politics had as much to do with the new budget request as the desire to establish credibility with Congress. Vice President Bush has lobbied hard for education increases, hoping they will translate into better showings in the polls. Republican candidates who once had to justify the administration's aid cuts can now breathe a deep sigh of relief...
...order for the MCAD to be able to rule in the case, the quasi-governmental body must establish that it has jurisdiction, which is dependent on the clubs being found to be a significant part of Harvard life. After the formal break from the clubs, the University cut off their Centrex service, steam heat, police service, and most recently, made the Harvard-owned portion of the Fly Club Garden more accessible to non-club members. With the formal ties nearly all severed, Schkolnick's case may prove difficult...
When the pilgrims set foot upon Plymouth Rock, their purpose was not to establish a society free from discrimination. Rather, they came to America to practice their own particular brand of intolerance. History repeats itself, and in Lisa Schkolnick's suit against the Fly Club, we see puritanical intolerance reenacted in all its irony and hypocracy...
...such sentiments and statistics is the fear of an age war born. Lured by high stakes and intuitive appeal, the lobbyists are swarming around the "generational equity" issue. Three years ago, Republican Senator David Durenberger from Minnesota helped establish the youth-advocacy group AGE (Americans for Generational Equity) to advance the claims of the young and counterbalance the powerful gray lobby. "The AARP is almost totally focused on the well being of its clients," says AGE Executive Director Paul Hewitt, "but they are going to have to address ways to avoid putting unbearable burdens on the baby boomers' children." Other...
...Reagan's answer surprised no one: privatize wherever possible. True, his plan reasserted NASA's central role in manned space flight. It called for $1 billion in funding next year for the agency's ambitious, $30 billion space- station project and $100 million to start exploring Pathfinder technologies to establish a base on the moon and send missions to Mars. It called on NASA and the military to cooperate in building a rocket capable of lofting heavy payloads for Star Wars and the space station...