Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...library received many geology materials until the creation of the GSL in 1960, Jonas said...
...major foreign policy address at Columbia University two weeks ago, Kennedy proclaimed, "America can no longer afford a policy that improvises from day to day, with no coherent, long-range strategy" for dealing with the Soviet Union. But Kennedy offered no strategy of his own. Instead he proposed the creation of a broad-spectrum, blue-ribbon commission to ponder the matter...
Long before the House of Representatives passed legislation authorizing the creation of the Department of Education, the rumors flew hot and heavy in Washington. President Carter, education insiders believed, would name someone with experience in state education programs to head the department--someone like former New Mexico Gov. Jerry Apodaca, a Chicano, or Mary F. Berry, under secretary in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), a Black woman...
...Energy (DOE--the new department will simply be ED)--would have terrible growing pains. "The department will spend about two years thrashing around trying to figure out which end is up," a spokesman for the American Federation of Teachers, the group which lobbied hardest against the department's creation, predicted. Hufstedler dismisses such warnings and points to the difference between the DOE experience and her own. The issues surrounding energy, she says, are "set before a bewildering array of Congressional Committees within whom the Department of Energy had to deal. That's not the situation at all," says Hufstedler...
...primary instigator of that "creation" took the same route as Bernal. Following his coach from Fordham Prep in the Bronx, Bobby Hackett came to Harvard in 1977 toting a little more than the usual college freshman paraphenalia--a silver medal from the Montreal Olympics...