Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't take long for Harvard (10-6-1 overall, 6-1-1 Ivy) to establish territorial dominance over the Bulldogs as, moments after the opening faceoff, the Crimson fired the first of 52 shots Yale netminder Tiffany Bingham would have to face...
...World Cup, the measure of season-long excellence in the Alpine disciplines (slalom; giant slalom; super-G, for super giant slalom; and downhill). He dominated the world championship at Crans-Montana with two gold medals and two silvers. He leads the current World Cup, and this Olympic year could establish him as the best all-event male Alpine skier since Jean-Claude Killy. Not the best male Alpine skier, without qualification, over this period; that would be Sweden's astonishing Ingemar Stenmark, still campaigning at 31, a self-invented slalom and giant slalom wizard who has won more World...
...efforts to promote a Middle East peace plan. As outlined by officials in Washington last week, the proposal calls for indirect negotiations involving Israel, Egypt and Jordan, as well as Palestinian representatives from the occupied territories. These discussions, which presumably would be conducted by a shuttling U.S. envoy, would establish some measure of Palestinian self-government in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, culminating in local elections next September. The newly chosen Palestinian officials would meet in December with the Israelis, under the aegis of some as yet undefined international entity to negotiate the permanent status of the Arab territories...
...people might say that [the officiating] was the reason but a lot of it was our fault," Phillips said. "We didn't come out and establish ourselves on the boards early on, and when we did so later, we didn't get the calls...
...diplomatic-military history from the dynastic struggles of 16th century Europe to the superpower competition of today. Kennedy's tale of the rise and fall of Great Powers is an uncontroversial one which relies heavily on other historians' interpretations. But Kennedy has created a broad synthetical framework to establish the "dynamic of change" involving military strength and economic capacity in world politics. While this link has been written on extensively by numerous scholars, The Rise and Fall is already an influential new book simply because it forcefully documents the importance of this dynamic over the last 400 years...