Word: creation
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...primary responsibility was the creation and maintenance of the campus-wide backbone for the Internet. As the University's largest organ for handling information technology, OIT became the source for all inquiries involving computers and the Internet...
...adequately represent them and longer, and accused it of cozying up to the University. "Many people think the leadership of 254 had to be sleeping under a crimson -colored blanket," said one musuem guard. These doubts about the management of Local 254 were the main contributing factor to the creation of the new union...
...fleshing out the ideas which are developing in one's mind. This inattentiveness to others tends to yield a comical and sorry dialogue; people do not respond to each other but talk at each other. Communication is supplanted by a thinly veiled conversational chaos. These classes foster the creation of an openly competitive, potentially intimidating environment in which only the talkers survive, and only the articulate excel...
...Cameron won't yield when it comes to getting his vision on the screen. At the moment he is several hundred miles south of Hollywood, filming at the Mexican beach town of Rosarito on a 40-acre site dominated by a massive 750-ft.-long re-creation of the ship--a hulking shell built almost to scale. It rests in a 17 million-gal. tank, and will be lowered into the water by degrees. Tonight's shoot takes place on the poop deck, which can be tilted as much as 90[degrees] by hydraulic lifts. This...
Even if Mobutu lasts that long, the integrity of his nation, a colonial creation that lashes together some 200 tribes across a region the size of Western Europe, is already at risk. Only Mobutu's will and wizardry have held the place together for so long. His style of rule combines charisma with a flair for draconian repression. (As part of an "authenticity campaign" in the '70s to divest Zaire of its European taint, he outlawed bow ties, public kissing and Christmas.) But he also successfully marketed his country to the West as a bulwark against Soviet expansion in Africa...