Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Messerschmitt, Bolkow-Blohm and Krauss Maffei, uses conventional electromagnets. The West Germans stopped using superconductors in 1979, convinced that the technology was out of reach. Thus, if the Japanese can get their design into marketable shape soon, they could build a lead in the vital field of superconductors and establish a strong grip on the future of high-speed long-distance train travel...
...surely don't think that's what the American people want to hear or what they're interested in. The first and most important thing a candidate has to do is to establish himself and what he stands for, what he believes in, what kind of person he is . . . The Vice President's fundamental problem is that people don't have any sense of what a Bush presidency would be like, and unless he changes that, he's going to lose...
...Jesus to be understood? Did he stride out of the wilderness 2,000 years ago to preach a gentle message of peace and brotherhood? Or did he perhaps advocate some form of revolution? Or did he instead look for heavenly intervention to establish the kingdom of God? What did it mean for Jesus to be tempted by sin? When did he realize that his mission would end with death upon a cross? Did he view himself as the promised Messiah? Did he understand himself to be both God and man, and what imponderable struggles of the soul would that have...
...brief argues that if Harvard's objections are sustained, the ruling would establish a new precedent that would bias elections in the employer's favor. It argues that employers have access to voters' opinions through supervisors, while unions have no other means than polling to elicit such information...
...Iranian officials with their country's isolation from the rest of the world. "One of the wrong things we did in the revolutionary atmosphere was constantly to make enemies," Speaker Rafsanjani recently admitted. "We pushed those who could have been neutral into hostility." Tehran has begun trying to re-establish some of its old ties. In June, after intervening on behalf of three French hostages being held in Lebanon, Iran resumed normal relations with Paris, ending nearly a year's hiatus. Last week the country quietly restored diplomatic ties with Canada, severed in 1980, after dropping a demand that Ottawa...