Word: establish
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...best argument anyone can think of for the Senior Gift is "You should establish a habit of giving for your lifetime." It seems like the act of writing a check to Harvard is simple enough that I could just do it when I became old and rich, without any practice. But Harvard feels I might be an irresponsible, undirected old wealthy person, so I need conditioning. It also, incidentally, recommends that I spend five minutes a day playing pinochle, wearing gigantic sunglasses and talking about the Washington Senators, just so other habits of being elderly are familiar when the time...
...have reduced the need for transfusion in patients with hemophilia. Drugs designed using the principles of gene therapy also seem to be shaping up as promising weapons against certain forms of cancer. But in all these cases the number of patients who have experienced improvements is too small to establish whether the same procedures will prove broadly beneficial or whether adverse effects will overshadow possible benefits...
...task, and last week they came up with what they hope is the very bottom of that tree. By measuring the rate at which the virus has mutated since the epidemic began, they calculated that HIV made its first appearance sometime around 1930. The work does not establish whether the virus showed up first in humans or in chimps, but the prevailing theory is that infected animals passed the virus on to people...
...meantime, Radcliffe officials are raising money to establish professorships for Institute research...
player of the year, for offensive firepower. The Crimson held Witt to two assists and no goals in January and the Huskies, who were never able to establish possession in the Harvard zone, relied on shots in transition to stay in the game...