Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the course of the year some of my generalizations were discarded. Those that remained were reinforced with facts and Tanzanian examples. I left in June, 1965, feeling that I was just beginning to teach a useful course, but I had enjoyed trying "to build the nation" and was grateful for the chance to see what my education was good for. When I arrived back at Harvard in the fall, I had the satisfaction of seeing some results of my teaching. In the course of the summer, some of my Kivukoni students had already run for, and been elected...
From June until January we went to school for half the day and the other half was spent working with our students to build a new school. The first two months our spirits were high, the weather was relatively cool, and there was almost no visible evidence of our labor. We built a gravel road, dug holes in the ground for building supports, and made the building supports out of steel rods and steel rings...
...prospect is not pleasing: the new subway tunnel represents a threat of permanent vibration, and while construction is underway, the Yard would be a monumental mess. MBTA engineers would probably use a cut-over technique of construction through the Yard; that is, they would dig down from the surface, build their tunnel, and then relandscape the surface when the tunnel is completed...
Last week, Manhattan's Kornblee Gallery put on display the first Hybrids, their neon tubing aglow as they rotated on turntables like new cars on display. The full-scale models sell for $1,100; compact, desk-sized versions cost $150. Blueprints are available to those who want to build one themselves. There are no plans to come out with a 1966 model...
Inevitable, ACCION invites comparison with the within already existing institutions, in diverse setting; she Accionista work exclusively in urban slums and start from scratch to build a community organization. ACCION is more selective, taking only about one in ten applicants as compared to one in three for the Peace Corps. ACCION's attrition rate is also higher--15 per cent to the Peace Corp's 5 per cent. This figure doesn't represent a higher dissatisfaction quotient, however. ACCION prefers to let all those go who can't match its demands for professional minded, dedicated activists. Because the Peace Corps...