Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Councilor Thomas Danehy said the creation of a police commissioner so soon after the new police chief took office was "like a vote of no confidence...
...Last year the balance of payments deficits of the developing nations that do not produce oil amounted to more than $25 billion. The wildly fluctuating revenues the nations receive from selling commodities on the world market are often not enough to cover their oil bills. One proposed solution: the creation of a "common fund" of $3 billion to stabilize prices by buying up excess crops and minerals that drive down prices. Carter is willing to seriously consider such an idea, as are the Europeans, but only after agreements are hammered out in advance on how to stabilize the price...
...show that lived up to his own dry comment: "Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess." Each of the 3,800 shareholders present in Needham, Mass., got a chance to shoot films of jugglers, clowns and dancing girls, then see the film projected seconds later. Dubbing his new creation Polavision, Land pronounced it "a new technology to relate ourselves to life and to each other." He slipped only once, when he tried to insert a film cassette backward into the new system's camera. He fumbled, got it right and bowed to a round of applause...
...charges he has always denied) introduced the subject himself when he noted Nixon's first television interview with David Frost tonight would air on the anniversary of "the Kent State massacre." He went on during his Law School Forum appearance to link the former President to both the original creation of McCarthyism and also to the survival of similar tactics today. And he said he feared that after the Frost interview there would be a renewal of "a lot, at least qualified, support" for Nixon...
Rosovsky announced the creation of the new subcommittee this April after the ad hoc group protested GSAS minority recruitment, admissions, and financial aid policy. Rosovsky has so far reached no decision on the new subcommittee's membership...