Word: creation
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Targeting her efforts especially towards 3 to 5-year-old children from low income families, Cooney drove the creation of Sesame Street. First airing in 1969, the program aimed at preparing underprivileged preschoolers for kindergarten...
...found by the Surveyor hint at a thicker, more Earth-like atmosphere during the planet's first couple billion years. High temperatures may also be one reason the planet is now red. The Greeks thought the Martian color meant war and destruction; Surveyor may end up proving it means creation...
Harry James must have sensed it too, because he had hired Sinatra, then a scrawny spoiler in his mid-20s, to sing with the band. Present at the creation, James could not have read the signs. The title of an early Sinatra-James hit was one of those anthemic declarations of defiance that, over the years and through the decades, was to form the Sinatra autobiography: All or Nothing...
...merger is notable not only for its size and complexity (the fine print of labor law and trade policy will have the lawyers tied up for months) but also for its symbolism. The creation of DaimlerChrysler Akteingesellschaft represents a triumph of the global economy and the end of car companies as national emblems of industrial might. The car business is too capital and customer hungry to care about flags. Witness last week's other big news: Volkswagen's $713 million deal to buy Rolls-Royce, the once regal, now tarnished marque of British motoring. Ford also announced last week that...
...serious negotiating process. Later, NATO troops under Smith's command, reflecting his narrow view of IFOR responsibilities, simply looked on as the thugs of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic forcibly evicted the Serbs who wished to remain in Sarajevo and then burned their houses--a major setback to the creation of a multiethnic state in Bosnia...