Word: creation
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...final item of business, the councilendorsed the creation of a concert commission thatwould try to bring bands to campus around sixtimes a year...
...story of the baby in the little ark woven of reeds is a favorite among some scholars who believe Moses was a creation of the ancient Hebrews' binding together their own national epic out of the tales of neighbors. They point out that a birth narrative of Sargon of Akkad, a Mesopotamian King who ruled in the millennium before Moses, reads, "My priestly mother conceived me, in secret she bore me. She set me in a basket of rushes, with bitumen she sealed my lid." There is also the Egyptian legend of the god Horus, who is hidden...
Shakespeare in Love fancifully retells the creation and premiere of Romeo and Juliet. It peoples the London of 1593 with the usual suspects--Christopher Marlowe (crafty Rupert Everett), Queen Elizabeth (Judi Dench, a sly dominatrix)--and some ageless show-biz types: the poverty-pleading producer (Geoffrey Rush), the backer with a lust for limelight (Tom Wilkinson). Director John Madden works in jokes about profit sharing and credit hogging, and a climax in which the real star steps in for an indisposed leading lady...
...warned that the dramatic 40 percent decrease of welfare rolls across the nation, as well as Massachusetts' drop, could be attributed to the creation of new low-wage paying jobs--which are far from stable...
Proposals offered by candidates struck similar themes, including advising reform, increased funding for student groups, the creation of ethnic studies programs and the construction of a student center...