Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...continues to struggle to establish a consistent identity for his father, and seems to regret the fame that the letter has brought to him after death. He says, "I see that that is what I want this afternoon magnetized by the mail, detoured around class, food, new people, that he be a mere inhabitant of earth." In death, his father has become a symbol that transcends his son's memories...
Michael Rukin, a member of the company's advisory board, said he "only heard about the wonderful sets" created by world-renowned designer Setsu Asakura. He said he expected the sets to establish a "wonderful world of fantasy which captures the children...
...reason I feel strongly," she adds, is, "if the city can establish a religion, then it can disestablish a religion by inference." Wolf says she has this "strong feeling" as a "card-carrying member of the ACLU" (American Civil Liberties Union...
...perestroika, though its agenda may not be identical to Moscow's. So far, the group's organizers have not announced a specific program, but they are expected to press for issues such as more Armenian-language instruction in schools, greater economic independence for the region, and the right to establish embassies in other Soviet republics with cities that have sizable Armenian populations...
...deputies then took their defiance a long step further: they agreed to amend the Estonian constitution to grant the republic's own supreme soviet the right to "suspend or establish limits" on Moscow-promulgated legislation affecting Estonian territory. Another vote made state property the possession of Estonia rather than the Soviet Union. Yet another called for a new "treaty of the union" with Moscow based on "principles of parity." Never was the word independence mentioned, but the delegates made clear that Tallinn wanted a radically different relationship with Moscow. Declared Estonian Communist Party Leader Vaino Valjas: "The future...