Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...UNCTAD agenda was exhaustive -covering such topics as the transfer of technology, international trade and the problems of landlocked developing nations-but, as expected, the crucial issue was commodities. The so-called Group of 77 (which actually includes about 110 developing countries) pressed for the creation of a $3 billion Common Fund that would attempt to stabilize world prices for various raw materials by maintaining buffer stocks in them (TIME, May 10). By buying and selling from these stocks, the LDCS argued, consumers and producers would be able to keep prices within an agreed range, thus avoiding both the sharp...
...opportunistic of evolutionists to accept some facts and reject others because they might imply a specific creation...
...while it looked as if all the investigations, all the headlines, all the public agonizing over U.S. intelligence abuses would come to nothing. The vexing question was whether the 15-month inquiry conducted by Frank Church's Senate Select Committee would lead to the creation of a truly effective congressional committee with oversight powers on the intelligence agencies. But for the efforts of a few Senators who dug in their heels-Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, Government Operations Committee Chairman Abraham Ribicoff and California's Alan Cranston among them -the answer might well have been an emphatic...
...bearing side of a nation. How and why the repetitious pace of ritual should be transformed into dance are questions that Balanchine alone seems able to answer. In Stars and Stripes (1958), he made a brilliant humoresque out of close-order and other U.S. military drills. In his latest creation, the hour-long Union Jack, he has come up with a visually stunning, three-part divertissement that masses the clans, changes the guard and salutes the Queen...
...recommend to students interested in 18th century Venice. Fellini likes to present psychic rather than objective reality. He uses any material-literary, political, personal-and bends it to his will, makes it part of his powerful fantasies. One cannot imagine his boasting that Casanova is a meticulous biographical creation. On the contrary he says: "There is no historical slant, no ideology. There is nothing but shapes in a landscape, drawn with a bit of perspective but so representative as to be positively freezing, hypnotic." Perhaps. But the film does heat up to record what may turn out to be some...