Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late 1982, an estimated 550,000 people lost their jobs, and the unemployment rate rose from 6.8% to 12.8%: Despite two years of modest improvement, employment has still not returned to prerecession levels. Canadian industry continues to operate substantially below capacity. Said Mulroney last week: "My government considers the creation of jobs its top priority. It is, for us, a moral imperative...
...COTTON CLUB is epic emptiness. Considering it had a mindboggling budget, a deluge of pre-release hype complete with melodramatic creation story, and a hip-hopping nightclub as its center, one might at least expect to be entertained...
...Administration sought to stem the rising tide by having Chester Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African affairs, explain the Administration's policy of "constructive engagement." Crocker complained that the policy, largely his creation, has been misunderstood. "It is not an embracing of any status quo," he said, adding that the U.S. has supported those black union leaders, students, clergymen and businesses seeking reforms in South Africa. The Administration contends that economic sanctions have rarely proved effective and could not be expected to have a great influence on such an embedded practice as apartheid. Jimmy Carter's more...
Hoffmann's lively imagination reflects a keen understanding of children and an ability to make this perception appeal to all readers Marie is his special creation and he makes us feel her pain as the clock is stabbed by the clockmaker's tools. Within this sugar-puff setting, we appreciate the somber purity and beauty that Hoffmann so prizes. Only a hopeless romantic could create a nutcracker who addresses his lady in "a little bell like voice: Dear sweet Marie. Protectress mine. Thou standest by me and I'll be thine." And within the bizarre tale of Marie's adventures...
Zeckhauser characterizes the policy as a "turning inward," to better serve the Harvard community. In addition to selling the buildings to faculty members, HRE is taking other steps, including the creation of a new administrative position to advice faculty on housing to be filled next semester...