Word: creation
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Real sharks were also required. Live ones were intercut with Mattey's creation for added verisimilitude. A dead one was needed to play the shark the townspeople thought was the killer. Some local fishermen promised they could provide the genuine article. After several fruitless days -at a daily wage of $100-the anglers came up with unsuitable catches. Frantic, the film company sent to Florida, and a 13-ft. tiger shark was flown up, packed in ice like a gourmet CARE package. The imported fish hung from a hook on the Edgartown dock for four days, sending up such...
...governments have rejected city pleas for the massive aid that city hall needs. In a narrow technical and legal sense, the city has not yet gone broke by missing a payroll or defaulting on a loan. At week's end state and city officials were haggling over the creation of a new state agency that would take the city into a partial receivership. The agency would temporarily bail out New York at the same time that it would assert some control over city finances-a humiliating but well-deserved intrusion on mismanaged home rule...
Similarly, the staff of the center was involved in the creation of new schools--federally funded in the sixties--and the development of new programs in others. Members of the center advised and helped plan curriculum for Roxbury schools...
...Roman Empire, but dealt with this era of upheaval in different ways. The more optimistic Christians came to terms with the secular world; they embraced the belief that God had become incarnate on earth in the person of Jesus Christ, as well as the Jewish idea of a "good" creation. It was the world-hating Gnostics, says Robinson, who "expressed most clearly the mood of defeatism and despair that swept the ancient world...
...inflation, in fact, that originally necessitated the creation of the new index of leading indicators. The old index proved trustworthy from its inception in 1948 until about 1970, but from then on it was badly distorted by accelerating price increases; they pushed some components of the old index, like new orders for durable goods, higher than the actual level of business activity would have warranted. For the past 2½ years, Commerce Department statisticians have been overhauling the index, calculating some components in terms of constant 1967 dollars to remove the effects of inflation, throwing out some old measures...