Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they would accept as a homeland the "22% of Palestine" composed of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Hemmeh region. But other groups, notably George Habash's Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, refuse to agree to anything but the abolition of Israel and the creation of a secular state for Arabs and Jews...
...history of procrastination to suggest that many ideas and decisions may well improve if postponed. It is something of a truism that to put off making a decision is itself a decision. The parliamentary process is essentially a system of delay and deliberation. So, for that matter, is the creation of a great painting, or an entree, or a book, or a building like Blenheim Palace, which took the Duke of Marlborough's architects and laborers 15 years to construct. In the process, the design can mellow and marinate. Indeed, hurry can be the assassin of elegance...
Dunlop was tapped to head the Cost-of-Living Council when President Nixon announced in 1973 the creation of the centralized agency with the responsibility for fighting inflation. Dunlop had since 1971 supervised anti-inflation controls as chairman of the Construction Industry Stabilization Board...
...U.W.C. is immediate new elections for the province's assembly. The strike leaders believe that a majority of the new legislators would oppose any steps leading to unification of Ulster and the Republic of Ireland. The U.W.C. opposes the entire Sunningdale agreement, but particularly objects to the eventual creation of a Council of Ireland. Made up of political leaders from the North and South, the Council would have administrative powers, a ministerial executive, a permanent headquarters and a secretariat...
...striped craft might have looked like the UFO sighting of the century. As it hovered above the ground, the large sphere-as well as the four long wings sticking out of its sides-rotated slowly, like some ominous unearthly creature. In fact, the odd contraption was a practical terrestrial creation. Designed by the All American Engineering Co. of Wilmington, Del., the Aerocrane, as it is called, is an unlikely cross between helicopter and balloon. It should easily outperform both in at least one important respect: the ability to hoist huge weights straight up from the ground and transport them across...