Word: creation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company offers a complete electronic infrastructure for establishing and managing a business on the Internet, ranging from on-line store creation for small businesses to custom business solutions for larger corporations...
...Japan's leading commercial banks, the Bank of Tokyo and Mitsubishi Bank, announced that they were discussing merger plans expected to lead to the creation of the world's biggest bank next year. Said a bank-stock analyst: "It's like marrying the two most beautiful people in the world." The new behemoth, with $823 billion in assets, would be 50% larger than the current biggest bank, Japan's Sumitomo, and would dwarf America's top-ranking Citicorp, with its mere $250 billion in assets...
...they neglect a far more important facet of the large federal system--it absorbs shocks and distributes bumps in trends far more evenly than any small state system could. The federal government, with its unmatched powers of taxation and debt creation, will always be better equipped to deal with sudden onrushes of demand for social services than easily-bankrupted states...
...same time, however, the collapse of the Soviet empire, the creation of new states and the breakup of others have triggered an explosion of ethnic conflicts, with racial and religious hatreds mixed in, giving fresh scope to terrorist free-lancers. Much of the violence committed today in the name of Islam is the work of small, loosely organized cells who emerge for little more than a single act of random vengeance. Sections of Pakistan are ungovernable safe havens for the remnants of 20,000 zealous volunteers from Muslim countries all over the world who went to join the Afghan mujahedin...
...point in the exhibit, onscreen images of planet Earth appear one at a time on different screens while the voice talks about Creation. The images bubble from screen to screen, syllable, when the language utters the words "physical" and "physiological." A rope creeps across nine screens while the voice drones on about the particularities of length and measurement. When Heidegger's text contradicts itself--"But space and time do not serve only as parameters"--the screens go blank. Then the images start rippling from left to right, change direction and slow down, as Heidegger winds his way through more...