Word: establishments
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...love is even tougher at attitude-adjustment wilderness camps. Teens are enrolled for one to three months of rigorous camping and treks through the wild. To establish discipline, food and water are often withheld. For punishment, the camps often impose grueling hikes and uncomfortable sleeping conditions. Cathy and Bob Sutton of Ripon, Calif., sent their 16-year-old daughter Michelle to camp Summit Quest in the summer of 1990 because she had become depressed and dabbled with drugs after she was date-raped. The Suttons, who thought from a marketing director's pitch that the camp sounded challenging but kind...
With the threat beaten back, The Crimson turnedto cover the news of the University, whichincluded a tenure controversy prompted theUniversity to establish standardized promotion andtenure procedures...
...band of the Disallowed eventually establish Haven, where they install a communal oven in the center of the town and then live in willed isolation from the outside world. Haven thrives for decades until the male descendants of the founding fathers return from service in World War II and find that the place has atrophied in their absence, that residents are moving out, seeking work in cities, looking for a share in the postwar prosperity. So these young men decide to repeat the past. They dismantle the oven, load it on a truck and move it and their families farther...
...People like to see a policeman because it allows them to come up and establish a relationship," Watson says...
Fischer says that the international inquiry wasn't meant to implicate the government: "Its purpose would be to establish the facts of the massacres, some specific culpability--things which are notably absent in this case." Yet Algerian officials, who maintain the violence is only "residual" even as public squares teem with villagers seeking refuge, continue to refuse any outside interference. For many Algerians it will be a long, terrifying January...