Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cause of the strike was militant Protestant opposition to the Sunningdale agreement, a compromise reached last December that led to the creation of the Provincial Executive, where Ulster's 1 million Protestants and 500,000 Roman Catholics began sharing political power. The militants, reflecting widespread Protestant apprehensions about Sunningdale, fear that the agreement will eventually result in the unification of Ulster and the Republic of Ireland that would relegate Protestants to minority status in a predominantly Catholic nation...
...veritable chaos. The intensity of the rumors floating around the department took a hefty upward turn last week after the executive committee--in something of a surprise move--chose not to rehire three VES teachers, two of whom have played a leading role in the department ever since its creation. The firings only increased the sense of futility of teachers and students who wanted to know what the hell was going on in their own department. Almost everyone in VES--save the four members of the executive committee--reported their reaction to the whole affair as what one person called...
Other subjects scheduled to be discussed at the meeting include the creation of a "Redbook Committee" to study the undergraduate curriculum and the structure of CHUL meetings with respect to its policy on the release of information reports to the public and to the press
...unusually thorough minority opinion, Justice William Douglas, writing only for himself, stated clearly that the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection clause "commands the elimination of racial barriers, not their creation in order to satisfy our theory as to how society ought to be organized." But the senior Justice made clear that the law school has broad discretion to give any individual applicant preference, so long as it is granted without respect to race. The majority may not go along, but what Douglas seemed to be suggesting was that if the school were to recast its admissions approach-for instance...
...participation agreements. Both are reasonable expectations, but neither is yet certain. Exxon Chairman J.K. Jamieson confirmed that the company had such a reserve, but did not say how large it was and denied that its purpose was to understate Exxon's profits. Jamieson called that charge "absolutely wrong." Creation of the reserve, he said, is a legitimate accounting practice. Not only did some analysts agree with Exxon's "prudence" but Texaco and possibly other oil companies are also setting up reserve funds...