Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike Barrett, a sententious rehash of every Walker Percy hero of the past (in fact, a direct borrowing from The Last Gentleman), Allison is a new creation, and she provides what little direction there is to The Second Coming's rambling. But too often Percy seems to be writing out of habit, letting the alienation and existential ideology flow lazily down the same channels cut by his earlier novels. Some of his metaphors are meaningless, form without substance...
...enemy whose tax-and-spend policies foster wilder and wilder roller-coaster rides of inflation and recession. With the nation turning against Big Government, the Democrats have run out of acceptable new ideas?their stock in trade for so long ?because the ideas have always involved creation of an ever larger bureaucracy. Ironically, it is Ronald Reagan, with his nostalgic vision of a day when the individual was great and the Government small, who now appears as the innovator, proposing risky but exciting new courses?to cut taxes by 30% over the next three years, for example...
...official, after President Joáo Baptista de Figueiredo. A cherubic, Chicago-trained economist, Delfim held the post of Finance Minister during Brazil's prosperous early '70s. He is convinced that the country can solve its problems only by aggressive growth, especially in exports, agriculture and the creation of new energy sources. Thus he is pressing ahead with development projects like the $10 billion Itaipu Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project. As Delfim explained to TIME Buenos Aires Bureau Chief George Russell: "We are a classic case of an underdeveloped country with an excess of government...
...Carter's years have been a true return to Government by popular will, filtered through the mind and ear of this earnest troubadour of the town meetings and televised press conferences, therein lies a huge and unexpected irony. The people do not like their own political creation...
...year 2000. By contrast, 17 environmental organizations, in an otherwise laudatory statement, noted that the report painted perhaps too bright a picture. The Carter Administration quickly made clear that it attaches considerable importance to the study. It was distributed to all foreign embassies in Washington, and President Carter announced creation of a Cabinet-level task force, under Gus Speth, chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, to develop a course of action for mitigating the global threats envisioned in the study...