Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While schools have had little problem finding appropriate hardware, they have run into difficulty unearthing low-cost, quality software. To help alleviate this situation, I have introduced a bill to establish a National Educational Software Competition, which would get the computer industry and the educational sector ,to work together toward producing software for all teaching levels...
Three others have already been convicted in the case. The defendants, who were drawn from such other vestiges of the '60s as the Black Panthers and the Black Liberation Army, claimed they planned to use the "expropriated" Brink's money to establish the "Republic of New Afrika" in the Southern U.S. Appearing chastened but calm, Boudin told Judge David Ritter: "I feel terrible about the lives that were lost. I have led a life of commitment to political principles, and I think I can be true to those principles without engaging in violent acts...
...coined from a term with the opposite meaning, "reactive." It is used to describe a major change in Washington's approach to the scourge of terrorism directed at U.S. targets. Rather than react after an attack, the U.S. plans to adopt a much more aggressive policy that would establish in advance the likelihood of reprisals and would even permit pre-emptive strikes against suspected terrorists. Said Secretary of State George Shultz at the White House last week: "I don't think that purely defensive postures are adequate. We must think through other aspects of this problem...
Even sitting down in a chair requires careful planning. The chair should be moved one inch to establish territory and slid into from front to back. The savvy executive can then strike the ultimate power pose by turning slightly and planting an elbow on the armrest...
...days. Last week in Los Angeles, two federal judges addressed cases brought by athletes who claimed that they were not being allowed to compete in their specialties because of discrimination both sexual and professional. In each case the court declined to second-guess the various athletic regulatory bodies that establish and, ever so slowly, change the rules. But the two suits have raised fears among Olympic officials that even before the Games begin, never will a host country's courts have been asked to settle so many Olympic problems...