Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shores of the Mediterranean. Arafat, the moderate, and Habash, the radical, may differ on means, but both men are nonetheless dedicated to the same ultimate goal?the replacement of Israel by a new secular Palestine for Jews and Arabs alike. Arafat is ready to settle for the creation of an interim, more limited state composed of the West Bank, Gaza and the Hamma region?but this would be only a base for continuing a cultural, political and perhaps military competition with
...collection of competing manias, and its traces-rooming houses, motels, highways-are perched on the edge of primitive wilderness. Driving out of Los Angeles, Hicks comments on the quick change of scenery: "Go out for a Sunday spin, you're a short hair from the dawn of creation...
...hero, Hassan, is a stylized creation--one never learns where he acquires his values, or why he follows his brother's will so cravenly in the beginning. And through a large portion of the film's middle he's away in jail. His calm dispassionate heroism doesn't help elucidate the tensions within him between tradition and new values...
Last month the Shah decreed free and compulsory elementary school education throughout the country. The problem, however, is that Iran does not have enough teachers. One reasonably successful palliative up to now has been the creation of a "literacy corps" of high school graduates who spend most of their two-year military service teaching school. The corps has a program in which teachers travel with nomadic tribesmen and at each stop pitch a white school tent alongside the tribes' black goat-hair tents. The Shah also decided that each schoolchild should have a free daily glass of milk...
...presenting his economic program to Congress, President Ford urged creation of a National Commission on Regulatory Reform to undertake a "long-overdue and total reexamination" of regulatory agencies. The commission would identify federal rules and regulations that increase costs to consumers and work to get them dropped. Even some regulators are pressing for change, violating Washington's unwritten rule that no regulatory agency speaks out against another. In a recent Detroit speech, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Lewis A. Engman lashed out at most regulatory agencies, particularly the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Civil Aeronautics Board. He said that their...