Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three of the programs have been used to assure job-creation and economic expansion through public/private partnership efforts, and to shore up social services which could not be provided by local governments...
...Louis, 300 district leaders of the United Auto Workers overwhelmingly approved the contract worked out earlier with General Motors. The contract was sent to the rank and file for ratification by Oct. 14. Despite creation of a $1 billion fund for retraining workers displaced by automation, there could be some balking. Says Pete Beltran, president of Local 645 in Van Nuys, Calif.: "The ratification vote will be much closer than people think." Autoworkers were grumbling that the annual wage hike for the next three years will be just 2.25%. Economists, though, feared that wages and benefits were still...
Mary Shelley would be pleased-or would she? The author's redivivus creation, the Frankenstein monster, is back again for a new-wave horror movie that sounds like, but is not, a remake of The Bride of Frankenstein. It stars Rock Singer Sting, 33, as Baron Frankenstein, and Flashdance Star Jennifer Beals, 20, as Eva, whom the good doctor whips up in the lab as a mate for his born-again monster. "I thought it would be interesting to play someone who came back from the dead but was still very human," says Beals. Understandably, her character shuns Frank...
...excitement of pursuing the religiously observant life in the modern world, makes much of humanity's God-given creativity. According to Soloveitchik, "God left an area of evil and chaos in the world so that man might make it good," purposely flawing the perfection of his own material creation to leave room for the improvements that could be made by his obedient creature...
...philosophy, reflected in the two newly published books, took on a more complex aspect in a different work, the powerful 1965 essay "The Lonely Man of Faith." The essay contrasts the first Adam of the Creation, depicted in Genesis 1, and the second Adam, depicted in Genesis 2. The first Adam boldly subdues the earth, while the second Adam humbly quests for God. Both Adams exist within each person and are mandated by God, Soloveitchik holds, but in modern times the first Adam threatens to overwhelm the second, and has even become "demonic." When the second Adam begins to speak...