Word: creation
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...Bethlehem "commissions" amounting to $1.7 million. Most of this money was funneled back into the U.S. and into Colombia and Venezuela. It served as bribe funds to induce shipowners to use the Bethlehem yards. Federal prosecutors said that many payments were made in cash in order to avoid the creation of a "paper trail...
...year 2000. By contrast, 17 environmental organizations, in an otherwise laudatory statement, noted that the report painted perhaps too bright a picture. The Carter Administration quickly made clear that it attaches considerable importance to the study. It was distributed to all foreign embassies in Washington, and President Carter announced creation of a Cabinet-level task force, under Gus Speth, chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, to develop a course of action for mitigating the global threats envisioned in the study...
Some French military experts, including former Cabinet Minister Alexandre Sanguinetti and retired General Georges Buis, have called for the creation of a joint European nuclear defense program that would combine French know-how with West German financial resources. The obstacles to such cooperation remain almost insurmountable. The London agreements of 1954 concerning West German sovereignty and membership in NATO forever precluded the acquisition of atomic weapons by Bonn, and Moscow has made it clear that it would never tolerate a West German finger on the nuclear trigger. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week reiterated a long-standing West German promise that...
...strategies for reversing the nation's economic decay. Senator Edward Kennedy has called for an American Reindustrialization Corporation to promote new investment in business and technology. Felix Rohatyn, a partner in the Lazard Freres investment bank and chairman of New York's Municipal Assistance Corporation, advocates creation of a new Reconstruction Finance Corporation, with $5 billion for loans to failing cities like New York or slumping companies like Lockheed or Chrysler. Management Expert Peter Drucker wants to accelerate the change to computer-age companies and shrink traditional blue-collar employment...
...imagery, painted and carved on the plates is explicitly sexual. Chicago creates a butterfly-vaginal form on each woman's plate, expressing the creation and birth; the butterfly's metamorphosis suggests women's development through the centuries. Many of the women portrayed are mythical, from societies that revered women not as sexual objects but as creators. The continued vaginal imagery perhaps suggests the rape of women, physically and psychologically, which prevented their intellectual and creative growth, condemning them to an existence tied to reproduction...