Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...princely sum covers salaries for Sprague's staff of 170, the lease or purchase of polygraph machines and copiers and the creation of a computerized cross-reference system for the thousands of documents the staff will sift through...
...border with Peru to Bolivia as a corridor to the sea. But Peru objected and invoked its right, obtained under a 1929 treaty, to veto any further change in status of territory that had once belonged to it. One reason for its objection is that Peru opposes the creation of a buffer between it and Chile...
...compose as they are to pronounce, sentences like these are common coinages of OuLiPo-an abbreviation of Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Workshop of Potential Literature). OuLiPo's 17 members - all Paris-based writers and scientists - meet once a month at well-lubricated lunches to discuss the creation of new literary structures, most of them based on mathematical forms. Asks the group's formal manifesto: "Must we abide by the known recipes and obstinately refuse to imagine new formulas? What certain writers have introduced in their fashion, with talent (indeed genius), OuLiPo intends to do systematically...
...ideal but least feasible alternative would be the creation of four-year Houses. Although the mix of classes would be very positive, the construction and rearrangement of the campus which would be required was considered an impossible undertaking for FAS at this time...
...creation or continuation of the more structured activities in the Houses, such as special tables, talks by Faculty members, and House courses (see recommendation 13) organized or mediated by Tutors...