Word: establish
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...Establish ground rules for the kids. For example, some parents were bothered by a gunlike toy, and there was a debate about whether nonswimming children should use flotation devices or stay out of the water. (The toy was put away, and each child had to follow her own family's water rules...
Cruz's lawyers hope to establish that their client's mental limitations were not adequately addressed during his trial; prosecutors insist that state-sponsored IQ tests, which placed Cruz well above the 70-point IQ mark, show Cruz to have the capacity to distinguish right from wrong...
...provide $185 million to combat father absenteeism and $10 million for a project showing fathers' importance --To establish parenting mentors --To save salmon in the Northwest without destroying dams --To help families avoid welfare with work-first services...
Among Eden's staunchest supporters are state leaders. In some states, including New Jersey and South Carolina, officials have used fines collected from nursing homes to establish grants for Eden. In May the Institute for Quality Improvement in Long Term Health Care in San Marcos, Texas, published the results of a two-year study of five Texas homes at which Eden is implemented. The study showed dramatic reductions in infections and behavioral incidents among residents and lower rates of absenteeism among staff. Later this month, Bill Thomas, the impassioned geriatrician who founded the movement in 1991, will head to Washington...
...occasion of Haviaras' retirement, an anonymous donor gave $25,000 to establish an annual Stratis Haviaras Lecture in poetry; Heaney gave the first address in April...