Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possible alternative to the Administration and the industry proposals has been offered by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long. He proposes the creation of what amounts to an energy trust fund, under which the Government would impose a wellhead tax and then use the revenue to stimulate new exploration and development of alternative energy sources by the oil industry. Last week, however, the Finance Committee scissored the entire wellhead tax scheme out of the bill. Instead, it proposed a $32 billion package of tax credits and grants, to be financed directly by the Treasury, that would aid industry in converting...
...beginning was the word. And the word was with Tolkien. And it spoke of the Valar, a race of gods who first dwelt in a creation called Middle-earth but then retired to Valinor. The Valar loved the light and planted two trees, Telperion and Laurelin, wherein was the source of the light of the world. But one of the Valar, a renegade named Morgoth, envied the light, wishing to corrupt and control Middle-earth...
...best Tolkien's posthumous revelation of his private mythology is majestic, a work held so long and so power fully in the writer's imagination that it overwhelms the reader. Like Tolkien's other books, The Silmarillion presents a doomed but heroic view of creation that may be one of the reasons why a generation growing up on the thin gruel of tele vision drama, and the beardless cynicism of Mad magazine, first found J.R.R. Tol kien so rich and wonderful. Says proud Fëanor, explaining why he will not give up to the Valar...
...agreement U.C. Davis made with Bakke to hold a limited hearing rather than a full trial, thereby restricting the material available for any subsequent appeal. In so doing, the university precluded presenting to the court certain facts--such as the university's poor minority admissions record prior to the creation of the special program--facts that would have helped justify the special admissions program to the court...
According to the theory, water drainage and land erosion created a homogeneous environment with fewer ecological niches so that fewer new species could evolve. Without new species creation, old species of dinosaurs died without replacement, leading to the extinction of all dinosaurs...