Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DEFLECTING: If the spring goes like the fall went for the council's grants committee, members may have to establish a special grievance subcommittee. That's because the fall allocation by the council of some $20,000 to undergraduate groups prompted an unusual number of complaints from grant applicants--even those who got money. So before another $21,000 is doled out, members are expected to focus on what they say was one source of difficulty--uneven adherence to criteria for determining awards. To do more than just say "sorry" to those groups which don't 'meet requirements for grants...
...increasingly a target; witness the three suicide bombings in Lebanon that have killed 260 Americans. Secretary of State George Shultz has been campaigning publicly for a more vigorous American response to such attacks, including retaliatory or even pre-emptive strikes on terrorist groups. But should he manage to establish that approach as U.S. policy, and so far he has not, the key to repelling terrorists would still be better intelligence about their identity and activities. That would take years to bring about...
...that were cited as Israel's justification for the invasion of 1982, code-named Operation Peace for Galilee. Government officials also explained that the withdrawal might free Israeli forces for more effective action in the border region. Declared Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin: "No terror organization will be able to establish itself as the P.L.O. did in the south of Lebanon. We will not allow such a thing, even if it means bombing from the air or entering Lebanon for limited military operations...
...from the debonair Fred Astaire to the all-pro running back Gene Kelly--has immortalized that leap. So there is no need for this coffee-table film to strain as mightily as it does to present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring to movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts up and lets Astaire...
...from the debonair Fred Astaire to the all-pro running back Gene Kelly--has immortalized that leap. So there is no need for this coffee-table film to strain as mightily as it does to present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring to movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts up and lets Astaire...