Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insist that the P.L.O. must be excluded−even though its leaders are currently talking in unexpectedly moderate tones. Last week P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat told a meeting of his 42-member Central Committee in Damascus that the Palestinians are now prepared to accept as their initial goal the creation of a Palestinian ministate. As most Palestinians now envision it, the state would consist...
...they might expect to visit some day but certainly not to liberate. Actually, what the Palestinians want most of all is the sense of national identity that would arise from statehood. Just as many Jews in the Diaspora were given a new sense of pride and hope by the creation of Israel; so also would the Palestinian refugees escape from the tarnish of being second-class citizens of nowhere if a state of their own were founded...
Most cosmologists−scientists who study the structure and evolution of the universe−agree that the biblical account of creation, in imagining an initial void, may be uncannily close to the truth. The universe, they believe, is the expanding remnant of a huge fireball that was created 20 billion years ago by the explosion of a giant primordial atom. The debris of the fireball, like the fragments of a titanic bomb, is still speeding outward from this cataclysmic blast, which started the process that produces not only stars and planets but also the complex structures of life. This startling...
...When they heard about Dicke's work, however, and compared the frequency and intensity of their radiation with his predictions, the mystery faded. Like radio listeners pulling out of the night the signal of a faraway station, they had picked up the hissing echoes of creation...
...1960s (said one colleague approvingly: "The Europeans thought he was too tough") . . . Other business executives say he is good at delegating authority, can "cut through issues like a buzz saw" . . . Believes Nixon-Ford foreign policy slighted trade and economic considerations; urges a code of ethics for domestic firms and creation of businessmen's group to police practices of multinational companies abroad...