Word: establishing
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This month Lauren, who has stores bearing his name in London, Hong Kong and Montreal, is opening another shop, in Munich. Next year he aims to establish two stores in Japan, where he sold $90 million worth of clothes through department stores in 1985, an 18% gain over the previous year. Lauren's popularity among the Japanese, whose appetite for U.S. styles and trends seems inexhaustible, has helped bring a new word to the native language: Ame- toraddo, for American traditional...
Though Chernobyl was a civilian atomic-power facility, Soviet officials used the accident report as a platform for their campaign against the American nuclear-defense program. After first ignoring and then minimizing the mishap, Moscow has tried to establish a link between Chernobyl and atomic weapons. Said the report: "The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant has again demonstrated the danger of uncontrolled nuclear power and highlighted the destructive consequences to which its military use or damage to peaceful nuclear facilities during military operations could lead." And Petrosyants told the press conference, "The explosion of the smallest nuclear warhead...
Moderate Shi'ites share that goal with the Israelis, but pressure from their extremist brothers prevents them from publicly admitting it. Instead, elements of Amal have joined with more radical coreligionists in the self-defeating policy of attacking the Israeli security forces. Hizballah is actively helping the P.L.O. re-establish itself on Israel's northern border. Says a P.L.O. official: "We have a very important objective in common with Hizballah: to fight Israel...
...operatives and spend $700,000. Robertson, who claims to have spent only $65,000, was the only contender given an unfavorable rating in the exit polls; but the Wall Street Journal/NBC News tally gave him about as many delegates as Kemp, around 10%. Kemp spent $250,000 trying to establish himself as the prime challenger to Bush and signally failed to do so. Dole, by sitting out Michigan and concentrating on showing his mastery as Senate majority leader, has begun to emerge as Bush's most formidable opponent...
...gonna start up." Charles Robinson, director of the Jackson Urban League, first warned city officials about the gang situation more than two years ago, hoping it could be dealt with early. "Right now, they're fighting for turf," he explained. "Once that's settled, they'll establish prostitution and narcotics...