Word: establishing
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WHEN ALLEN GINSBERG published "Howl" in 1956, the poem was dirty enough, and its author brash enough, to establish new standards of literary freedom...
More room will be available for special collections, and the library will establish an audio-visual center to be named for filmmaker Martha Stewart, said Margaret Tauborg, executive assistant to Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner...
Although Harvard professorships usually cost $1.5 million, Allison said he let the former Secretary of the Treasury and former President of the Harvard Board of Overseers establish the Douglas Dillon Professorship of Government for only $1 million in appreciation of his donations to the Kennedy School in its early days...
During the early 1980s, video shops were the hottest gambit for do-it- yourself entrepreneurs. "It seemed to be an easy-to-operate business, and the amount of money needed to establish it wasn't that great," recalls Walter Rosselle of North Hollywood, Calif., who is planning to sell his shop after 2 1/2 years in business. Because of newly arrived competitors, his daily tape rentals have dropped from 130 to about 75. A survey of 1,200 video stores conducted in January by the trade publication Video Store showed that 28% of the merchants were dueling with another store...
...Administration to violate even the spirit of U.S. laws, including laws that it rigorously enforces on others, is a serious matter. But it is far from the only bad consequence of the misadventure in Iran. U.S. officials were obviously justified in meeting secretly with Iranians willing to re-establish contact. Given Iran's geopolitical importance, it would have been irresponsible of the Americans not to do so. In diplomacy, especially in the Middle East, a country sometimes has to talk one way and act another. But to connive at arms sales to Iran, for whatever reason, seems clearly to have...