Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council also approved the creation of a standing committee on information technology, whose duties would include overseeing plans for a cross-faculty computer network. The full Faculty will vote on the committee's formation on November...
...defense of NAFTA. But NAFTA is a Trojan Horse for gullible free traders. It is no embrace of free trade. Rather, North America is fast becoming merely the latest bloc on the block. Far from being a milestone in trade liberalization, NAFTA is a big step toward the creation of a trade "Fortress America...
...isolationist national policy would allow for the creation of a similar organization, perhaps at the cost of an across-the-board cut of foreign aid. This method would seem to be the best way of bringing American dollars back home, regardless of President Bush's existing foreign trade plans...
Both the Reagan and Bush Administrations have avidly sought the group's counsel. Not to be outdone, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton has traveled to Miami's Little Havana to seek Cuban-American money and Mas' support. In Congress the foundation was the major force behind the creation of Radio and TV Marti, the U.S.-sponsored propaganda stations beamed into Cuba. Outside the legislative realm, the group won the right to prescreen Cuban immigrants headed for the U.S. from third countries, and last year it rammed through regulations limiting the money Cuban exiles can send to relatives back home...
...Stiller's most brilliant creation may be Michael Pheret, a smarmy Hollywood agent who in a recurring bit is seen giving insipid career advice to real-life celebrities like Roseanne Arnold and the rap group Run-D.M.C. In his compulsive blabbering -- a cascade of fawning hyperbole and whatever-you-want- to-hear insincerity -- Stiller rises above simple media parody. He gets at the heart of the whole phony, pathetic show-business ethos...