Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrangled over motions and amendments last week, the delegates knew that the real struggle for survival will come with next spring's elections. For Mitterrand to pursue his policies with any effectiveness through 1988, his party must win about 30% of the popular vote next March. That would re-establish the Socialists, who currently hold 285 seats in the 491-seat National Assembly, as the country's largest single party and deny a majority to their major opponents, the neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic and the right-of-center Union for French Democracy. But reaching that 30% threshold will...
...pulling down, one of my favorite amusements." Heirs to the Palladian vision are more subdued. The modern couple who decide to build a house had better check their marital foundations first. For his part, the architect must patiently extract straight lines from his clients' tangled desires. He must also establish a working truce with his natural enemy, the builder. Then there is the money, probably the largest amount most people will ever spend in any one place. If it is any comfort, Jefferson was always over budget...
...Tawheed and the Syrians. The plan calls for the total disarmament of all militias under the supervision of the Syrian army, which will head a security committee that will assume control of Tripoli. Whether the cease-fire was the result of Soviet pressure on the Syrians was difficult to establish...
...film factories, Universal Pictures. Fighter Squadron (1948) was his first film. During the next six years, 25 others followed, like The Iron Man and Air Cadet. The studio was his school. By the time his first big picture, The Magnificent Obsession, came along in 1954, he was able to establish his film personality: steady, likable, a man among...
...addition to urbanization, one of the primary forces behind secularization in the United States has been the push by the consciousness industry to create receptivity for artificial appetites in consumers. To establish new social space for the imposition of consumer needs, capital has advanced the delegitimition of the emphasis on God that is central to precapitalist social systems...