Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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After a decade of military buildup and the expensive creation of a rapid- deployment Central Command to protect oil supplies from the gulf, Americans naturally wonder: Why not a military response? The answer is that Iraq is too strong. The country has 1 million battle-hardened men under arms, plus 500 combat aircraft and 5,500 tanks. The U.S. has no ground troops in the region; its presence is limited to six medium-size ships of the Joint Task Force * Middle East, based on the island of Bahrain. The aircraft carrier Independence is steaming toward a station off the Straits...
Celebrity is not new. Leo Braudy in The Frenzy of Renown traced its origins to Alexander the Great and other leaders who used fame to consolidate their power. But as a lucrative career in itself, celebrity is a recent creation. A herd of columnists like Colacello moos after the newly famous, chronicling tectonic shifts in the species and its habitats imperceptible to anyone but the most tireless observers. The columnists then become famous for their mooing...
Mizel met with Pena in 1986 to urge an accelerated time-table for the airport construction. Pena, citing a study forecasting the creation of 20,000 new jobs, announced a plan to move up the airport's opening date more than a year, to 1992. When Pena entered a tight race for re-election in 1987, M.D.C. was a principal backer...
Decidely genius is the farcical scene in which Huml's haunts literally come crashing down upon his head. This scene is a flawless creation of sound and slapstick. Carefully choreographed characters clomp up stairs, slam doors, charge and claw the professor while screeching lines like, "You're not just trying to jolly along the fish, are you?" The laughter evinced in this scene alone would guarantee the work a place as a comic success...
...Space Council, instructed NASA administrator Richard Truly "to put together an outside task force that will consider the future long-term direction of the space program." And last week Quayle announced that Norman Augustine, chairman of Martin Marietta Corp., has been selected to head the new group. To some, creation of the task force signaled a diminished role for NASA in space...