Word: creation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...codes of conduct." Consistent standards could be upheld, of course, by the proposed International Criminal Court of Justice currently under discussion in the U.N., which would create a permanent, independent war crimes tribunal. That would be if the U.N. could persuade Russia, China and the U.S. to accept the creation of such a court...
...weakness," Gwyneth Paltrow crawls on a leopard-print rug, and George W. Bush looks as if he's about to cut loose with some earthy language (as he does inside). The juice is in the juxtaposition, says Brown, as she lovingly leafs through her 254-page creation in her office 56 floors above Carnegie Hall. "I wanted to race up and down that high-low keyboard," she says...
...delicate chocolate-and- almond cookie crumbling in her hands. Oberdorfer, manager of direct sales for magazine publisher Rodale Press in Emmaus, Pa., is running out of time. She's part of an eight-member sales group that is seconds away from diving into a gourmet meal of its own creation. The group is in the kitchen of the Team Cooking Group, brainchild of New York's Cooking by the Book cooking school and Take Charge Consultants of Downingtown, Pa. They are learning how to deal with limited resources and how to become more cross-functional, goals set by their manager...
...attorney (who was present during the interview), Drabinsky claims in general that he was too busy running the company's creative affairs to pay much attention to the books. "It's not humanly possible that someone as involved as I was in the production of shows, the creation of new shows, the marketing of shows, the building and restoration of theaters, would have any time left to micromanage a huge and complex accounting system," he says. "To suggest anything to the contrary would indicate either ignorance or that somebody was lying...
...there are generations of copy writers out who have also lived here, wire writers and correspondents working in nearly essential anonymity because they loved to write and tell the rest of the world how it is in this fabulous city, this creation of political philosophers and constitution writers. I think of the decidedly unromantic picture of H. L. Mencken sitting in the late night, overweight and sweating, pounding away at his keyboard in the Chesapeake heat, a fan blowing the steamy, soupy air around as he, clad only in a pair of BVDs, faces sheet after sheet of blank paper...