Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conducting a complete reappraisal of its China policy. So far, the inclination has been toward further attempts to relax tensions, possibly even including cancellation of the U.S. embargo on nonstrategic trade with the Chinese. When a high-powered West German consortium recently notified Washington that it had contracted to build (on credit) big, up-to-date steel plants in Szechwan province, the Administration made no attempt to block the project...
...first, city officials and even some stockbrokers took all this as mere ritual growl. Twice before, the exchange had headed off similar tax increases by vowing to move away. Last week the exchange turned from threats to action. Its board of governors canceled plans to build a $50 million headquarters in Battery Park, ordered architectural work halted, voted to let an option on the site lapse and decided to step up a search for a new home elsewhere...
Some time before, according to legend, the Cambridge Fire Department had sought to build a fire station in contemporary style on the triangle across from Mem Hall, but was told by the University that it would clash with the older building. The department built it in Georgian style instead--and then the University went ahead and built Burr Hall, to the firemen's chagrin. When the fire broke out, the story goes, they watched the tower burning from across the street and told inquirers that they didn't have enough water pressure to reach the blaze...
Thai was always quite genial and smiled incessantly. In particular, he enjoyed talking about the economic progress which South Vietnam has experienced despite the war. When asked to elaborate, he spoke of the significant build-up of urban light industries. Vietnam's three spinning mills have increased from 60,000 spindles in 1960 to 100,000 today. Thai also cited the development of paper factories, chemical and cement complexes, and a coal mine which has been started in the middle of a Communist-dominated area. These industries are examples of what Thai calls "more active participation of the people...
...account for the anticlimax, where sequences build to such banal exchanges as: (Bardot) "If my father saw me in clothes like these!" (Moreau) "Hurry up! We're going to the dance!" Then the beginnings of an exit, such as you get on high-school stages when there's no room in the wings. It's clumsy, and unlike Malle. Some of these scenes might seem less vacuous to French ears deaf to the banal dialogue spoken in English. I suspect that one scene, where some Negro officials sit around sipping tea, is built almost entirely of phrases from English textbooks...