Word: creation
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...speech, Forbes listed four requirements for the flourishing of liberal democracy: a stable currency, low taxes, protection of physical and intellectual property rights and minimal bureaucratic interference in business creation and operation...
According to Tom Kochan, a professor of management at M.I.T.'s Sloan School, only about 35% of U.S. workplaces have implemented two or more socially responsible measures. These tend to be larger, better capitalized firms rather than small and medium-size companies, where the bulk of U.S. job creation occurs...
...driving bits of straw through fence posts--what may actually happen, scientists suggest, is that a sudden drop in air pressure forces the wood to expand, allowing the straw to lodge in newly opened cracks). But even with all they've learned about the physical forces that power the creation of twisters, meteorologists still cannot say beforehand what path a particular tornado is likely to take or how much damage it is likely to do. That's what makes these fearsome creatures so fascinating and so deadly. And such natural Hollywood stars...
...Adair in her green years was considered a poet of promise. Thanks in part to the demands of marriage (in 1937 to the historian Douglass Adair Jr.), motherhood and teaching, she stopped publishing but kept on writing. Literary fame meant nothing; her delight was in the solitary pleasure of creation. The 87 poems in 'Ants on the Melon' are a fraction of her oeuvre, which runs into the thousands. Occasional verse for such magazines as the Atlantic and the New Yorker has earned Adair in recent years a coterie of fans (other poets notable among them). One dazzled critic (Eric...
...Breast Project" is the creation of Adams House artist-in-residence and tutor Janet S. Echelman...