Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...along with the problem, Cyr has proposed a solution which he is touting as the first step toward an effective housing policy for Cambridge: creation of a so-called "land bank" to stockpile city property for future development. The plan, he says, is intended to "take the politics out" of affordable housing...
Since the state economy is going to limit the amount of housing the city can build, Schlesinger and other city planners says that a lower maximum income will only delay the creation of new housing...
...film's largest strength is its fully dimensional re-creation of the man's spirit, about which Eastwood is thoughtfully, often amusingly, ambivalent. Huston's love of risk and contempt for caution, qualities that brought out the best in people who co-ventured with him over dangerous ground, are admiringly stated. In one of the movie's best passages, Wilson deliberately picks a fight he knows he will lose with a white racist in an exclusive African club. Sometimes, he says, bloodily staggering away from the encounter, you have to volunteer for losing causes or "your guts will turn...
...Mathers is part of a re-creation, edging back toward an open and exhilarating country that was swept away by bad government policy and greed. Homesteading was a tragedy in most of the plains, pitting small farmers against the relentless weather. It was no contest. But then the government compounded the problem -- and still does -- by offering crop subsidies, and those who broke the soil became manacled to a marginal existence. Some still hang on, but time runs against them...
...scary kids ready to burn, maim and hack to pieces real or fancied enemies -- kids who had never known a home with parents, never been to school or followed any rule but the rule of survival by violence. Now to save the whites from this Frankenstein monster of their creation, the government was counting on the recently legalized African National Congress (A.N.C.) and leaders like Nelson Mandela to bring these wild ones into some sort of discipline...