Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government should look to establish a national foundation to focus primarily on revitalizing U.S. technology, but at the same time should leave the NSF to support and manage the broader arena of free inquiry into basic scientific research...
...formation of a special committee made up of government and business leaders from their countries to find ways of directing future U.S. aid toward bringing about a long-range Israeli economic recovery, with emphasis on the development of high-technology industries. The two leaders reaffirmed their intention to establish a "free trade zone" between the U.S. and Israel, a plan that the U.S. Congress has also approved. This, Peres hopes, will boost Israel's annual export earnings from $11 billion to $19 billion by 1989. The device is politically ingenious: it allows Reagan to help Israel immediately without simultaneously...
Despite the slight improvement in the approval process, Ridings said that she would not deal with campaign subordinates but would seek to discuss the process and perhaps establish a list during a conference telephone call with Mondale Campaign Chairman James Johnson and White House Chief of Staff James Baker. After the campaign is over, the League is considering meeting with reporters and political figures to work out a new system that will give candidates less leeway in exercising a veto. Says Ridings: "We do not expect journalists to be political eunuchs. We all have our thoughts and beliefs...
...sincerity, "to like this man?" The general had remained in power be cause of what Greene acknowledges was "a streak of cynical wisdom." Torrijos liked to announce, "I don't want to enter into history. I want to enter into the Ca nal Zone." If diplomacy failed to establish Panamanian sovereignty over the U.S. -built canal, there was always sabo tage: blow a hole in the Gatun Dam, and it would take three years for rain to refill it. Meanwhile, he would mount a guerrilla war in the mountains...
...Gogh was obsessively interested in stylistic coherence. Just as one can movements of "his brush imitating the microform of nature-the scrawling striations of a gnarled olive trunk, the "Chinese" contortions of A weathered limestone-so the drawings break down the pattern of the landscape and re-establish it in terms of a varied, but still codified system of marks: dot, dash, stroke, slash. In his best drawings sur le motif, most of which belong to his second visit to Montmajour in July 1888, one sees how this open marking evokes light, heat, air and distance with an immediacy that...