Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good." So Genesis I sums up the creation of the world. But one family of Near Eastern sects had the opposite view: it believed that the Creator and his work were evil, and that men's souls were imprisoned by earthly life. The only escape was salvation through possession of an esoteric gnosis (Greek for knowledge), which led to union with an abstract supreme being. Such was the creed of Gnosticism, a strange amalgam of beliefs that was orthodox Christianity's main rival in the early centuries after...
...plan also proposes the creation of an Iranian Educational Foundation to contract for assistance on the School's curriculum, building construction and academic planning with universities in this country and Western Europe...
...students who invented the game in a parking lot at Columbia High School in Maplewood, N.J., six years ago set out to create a simple, inexpensive, low key sport "for the non-athlete." They did just that, then took their creation to college, where they spread it with evangelical enthusiasm...
Infuriated, De Gaulle ordered the creation of a competitor, and three small computer firms were eventually welded into the Compagnie Internationale pour I'lnformatique, known as CII. It never really gave Americans much competition. GE increased its holding in Machines Bull to 66% and then sold its interest to Honeywell in 1970. Under the leadership of a former IBM engineer, Jean-Pierre Brulé. Honeywell Bull earned a $25.3 million profit in 1974 on sales of $534 million and enjoyed a solid 18%-to-20% share of the French market. By contrast, even with massive infusions of government capital...
...must be mine or die upon the rack, if I want you, Keats' cry rings through the ages. Why should Jaromil be jealous? The redhead girl now belongs to him more than ever. Her fate was his creation. It was his eye watching her as she urinated into the pail; it was his hand touching her when a guard treated her roughly. She was his victim, his creation; she was his, his, totally...