Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coalition's push for some of the other demands, however, may have lost momentum. After administrators gave coalition members statements of support for some demands, such as increasing the number of minority faculty and the creation of a minority students' center, the coalition has eased back from its early activism, Garcia said...
...course, the administration was hoping against hope. The more likely result of the embargo's end would be the creation of (in the words of Douglas Hurd) a "level killing field" instead of an uneven...
Sadly, the creation of that state, by the means Warren Christopher so excoriated, appears to be the only strategy currently effective in Bosnia. The Vance-Owen plan, the sole overreaching policy the international community has proffered, is an ineluctable shambles. Lord Owen himself, co-purveyor of that % scheme, which proposes to divide Bosnia into 10 provinces drawn along ethnic lines, acknowledged last week that bombing Serb supply lines may be necessary after all. "If they are hell-bent on taking other towns, then we will have to meet this assault on Muslim towns with military action," he said...
VATs, common in Europe, impose tariffs at various stages of a product's creation, with the cost eventually passed on to the consumer in the price of the finished goods -- a de facto sales tax. Bill Clinton, shying away, dubbed them a "radical" revenue-raising method in February. But faced with the expected multibillion-dollar annual cost of extending medical coverage to all Americans, Health Secretary Donna Shalala and budget guru Alice Rivlin both seemed intrigued by a VAT -- apparently in addition to health care-dedicated revenues to be derived from higher taxes on alcohol and tobacco...
...paradoxically, faith. Science is nothing if not a spiritual undertaking. The idea that nature forms some sort of coherent whole, a universe, ruled by laws accessible to us, is a faith. The creation and end of the universe are theological notions, not astronomical ones...