Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quite the apocalyptic vision of the timber companies. But neither the $1.2 billion for worker retraining and community investment nor Clinton's proposed removal of a federal subsidy on log exports -- a step intended to encourage the processing of more logs in the Northwest and the creation of more sawmill jobs -- placated the industry's fury. The plan contained unsettling news for environmentalists as well. An additional 1.9 million acres -- 22% of the remaining old growth outside of wilderness areas and parks -- will be vulnerable to the chain saw. Even more disturbing to conservationists were hints that to ensure...
...ruling that seriously challenges the common practice of drawing black-majority congressional districts as a means to implement the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court said the creation of one such district in North Carolina may have violated the constitutional rights of white voters...
...heard of the discussions seemed to conceive of the talks as a pathway to a merger into a "mega-hospital." In fact, while increased cooperation is a likely outcome of the talks, those familiar with the discussions between the hospitals and with the Boston health care scene say the creation of a 3000 bed hospital is unlikely...
...press on to page 250. I just feel so corny here writing like an idiot. Anyway it's hard to get my head out of the bummer this place is giving me. Dam it I can't write. I'm too bummed out." Ah, the anguish of creation! The visitor knows what he means...
Hoping to take advantage of his forward momentum last week, the President held two news conferences. At the first, he pointed to his success in getting a budget agreement through both houses of Congress, denied that he had changed course in Bosnia and, somewhat implausibly, took credit for the creation of 755,000 new jobs since he took office. "This is the most decisive presidency you've had in a very long time on all the big issues that matter," he said. The question-and-answer sessions represented a wary revival of Clinton's on- again, off-again truce with...