Word: creation
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...France tried to organize a clandestine local with the support of a chapter of the Socialist-dominated Confederation Franchise Democratique du Travail, the country's second largest trade union.* Also, a group of enlisted men wearing masks to hide their identities held a press conference to announce the creation of a similar union at Chaumont, 140 miles southeast of Paris. Since then, other illegal army organizations have sprung up, and a Socialist group was sighted recently distributing inflammatory leaflets at a Paris railway station to impressionable recruits on weekend passes...
Colker said yesterday that the creation of the task force reflects a desire on the part of its 12 member organizations to pool their resources and data, and to prevent administrators from "playing one organization off against another...
...municipal services, argues E.S. Savas, professor of public systems management at Columbia University. "The budget can be cut," he says, "but it doesn't follow that services must be diminished relative to that cut." Carter Bales, a partner of McKinsey & Co., a management consultant firm, urges the creation of an independent agency to assess the productivity of city departments. "That would scare the living hell out of the managerial bureaucrats," says Bales. If an agency fails to measure up, its work can be contracted out to a more efficient private organization. Beyond that, the city must stop trying...
...league-leading 40 times last season was only the beginning of the front four's contribution to the Steelers. They set the tone for the entire defense and it was the defense that carried the 42-year-old Pittsburgh franchise to its first Super Bowl championship last year. The creation of patient, low-key Head Coach Chuck Noll, who drafted all but two of the starting defensive players, and Steelers Founder and Owner Art Rooney, who gave Noll the backing he needed to build slowly over the past six years, the defense is the cornerstone of Pittsburgh's leadership...
...collection of the original issues of Marvel Comics, Son of Origins, Lee describes Spiderman's creation: "we recklessly flew in the face of all established tradition and dared to create a hero out of a shy studious, insecure, mollycoddled momma's boy." As Lee puts it, "He's the Woody Allen of the superheroes...