Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longer be presented as fact, but as both fact and theory, an equivocation pleasing to the religious right because few understand that to scientists "theory" is not a synonym for mere "hypothesis." Among other concessions, mention of a 1987 Supreme Court decision denying scientific status to so-called creation science will be deleted...
Soon the argument attained a higher judicial level. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, joining in dissent from the 1987 decision, cited testimony that "creation science" merits equal class time with Darwinian evolution as a competing theory of the origin of life...
Second Shift also details the more subtle effects of women's overwork: a brewing resentment, declining communication between spouses, the creation of delusions to prevent breakdowns and lack...
...country with no tradition of pluralism and democracy, the creation of parties, of programs, of an electoral system is a daunting enough assignment -- even without post-revolutionary confusion and chaos. There have been suggestions that the balloting should be postponed beyond April. But Rumanians, who have shed much blood to win the right to choose a representative government, are not likely to allow anyone to keep them from doing...
...death in 1980, attempted to reorient heavy industry toward consumer goods, decentralization and profitmaking in the mid-1960s. But, ironically, that program was aborted partly because the Soviet crackdown on "socialism with a human face" in Czechoslovakia triggered a backlash against liberalism in the U.S.S.R. In Poland the creation of Solidarity, the first independent trade union in the Soviet bloc, preceded the advent of Gorbachev by five years. But Lech Walesa was officially considered an outlaw. The notion of Solidarity participating in government, not to mention dominating it, was unthinkable...