Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sulfur coal in southern Utah and, when fully operational, generated 3 million kilowatts for customers in Arizona and Southern California-enough power to meet the needs of some 3 million people. The project's demise is also a blow to the economy of Utah, which had envisioned the creation near the plant of a town of up to 15,000, additional payrolls of $100 million and tax revenues of $28 million...
...perhaps more important. As University of Pennsylvania Historian Michael Zuckerman points out, the colonies before and during the Revolution were made up of isolated communities that used a common method to achieve political consensus, mobilize for collective action, and control crime: the public manipulation of reputations and the creation of a powerful nexus of human interdependence. Majority opinion not only dominated political decision making, but controlled most public and much private conduct as well. This is why there was such frequent resort to humiliation as a penalty. Stocks, pillory, and tar and feathers were effective because the opinion...
...trial lawyers in the U.S. The Chief Justice has also been fighting for prison reform and to increase salaries of federal judges. (Critics claim he has even urged a resigning jurist or two to exaggerate his financial plight.) He has also done his rhetorical best to jog congressional creation of additional federal judgeships...
...least as effective as OSHA's. State plans approved by OSHA were to then receive 50 per cent of their funding from OSHA. Labor unions were particularly opposed to these last provisions; they feared that state administration would result in a return to the conditions that had necessitated the creation of a federal agency in the first place...
...plays that belong in the durable realm of dramatic art seem to predate their creation. They exercise a strange primordial authority and inevitability. Virginia Woolf is just that sort of invincible work...