Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Others have attacked him for making the University more corporate, pointing to his creation of the Medical Science Partners, which markets University research, and the endowment's involvement in controversial leveraged buyouts...
...arguing that action against the threat of global warming should wait for more research. The man behind that go-slow position was John Sununu. An announcement by the U.S. delegate to a United Nations meeting in Geneva last week came as a further shock: the U.S. will oppose the creation of a new $100 million fund to help developing countries avoid using chlorofluorocarbons...
...millions of them out there with lots of money. I think the important point is that with the Supreme Court victory Edwards v. Aguillard, we destroyed the strategy that has been their focal point since the 1920s, namely the attempt to force legislatively the mandated teaching of this oxymoronic creation science of theirs in the classroom...
...much as I did. They are never going to go away, and locally they are very powerful. Before local school boards they can lobby. The Supreme Court said you can't force the teaching of creation science, but it didn't say that if individual teachers happen to want to teach it they can't. If an individual teacher is teaching creation science, then it is the problem of the local school board. They hired an incompetent...
...high-ranking consultations were designed both to ease Soviet concerns about the merging of Germany and to explore the creation of a fresh European security order. For Americans, there was the added challenge of defending the primacy of NATO, the main institution that channels U.S. political influence into the councils of Europe. As Baker made his rounds, President Bush articulated his vision succinctly: "NATO will continue to be vital to America's place in Europe...