Word: construct
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Mayor Collins has come up with a means of cutting this Gordian knot of politics and red tape. The Adinolfi Report, commissioned by Collins and released last week, proposes that a new city agency be formed to plan and construct all municipal buildings. This "Public Facilities Commission" would be appointed by, and solely responsible to, the mayor. It would conduct long range planning, handle all finances, choose architects, and select building sites. It would have a budget immune to amendment by the City Council, and it would be able to bypass city regulatory agencies and float its own bond issues...
During the interviews I was struck by the high degree of intelligence and lucidity with which most students answered my questions. It reflected a tendency among most of them to think and talk a great deal about taking drugs, and unconsciously construct arguments to defend their habit against the legal and social bans imposed by society. Obtaining drugs is a positive act which goes against the inertia of legal constraints--to ignore the restrictions requires some internal debate. Having decided that drugs were worth it, the students interviewed took particular pains to describe drug-induced sensations which defy verbal cliches...
Within the next year, the MSD began to construct large sewers parallel to the banks of the Charles intercepting all the old local sewers that once flowed directly into the river. This ended the major source of pollution. But these same local sewers also carried storm water and during heavy storms the interceptors were made to overflow into the Charles, to avoid their backing up and clogging local systems. Essentially, this was the method used until this year...
...FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX. Survivors of a plane crash in the Sahara, among them James Stewart, Hardy Kruger and Richard Attenborough, struggle to construct an airworthy vehicle from the wreckage and work up plenty of excitement in the attempt...
Near Isfahan, surveyors were setting the final location for a $286 million steel mill that the Russians will construct for Iran. Other crews tramped across the desert and through mountain passes driving stakes to mark the route for a $450 million pipeline that will carry natural gas 800 miles north from Iran's southern oilfields to the Russian border. At Bandar Shahpur, still others staked out the site for a $100 million petrochemical plant, owned jointly by Iran and the U.S.'s Allied Chemical Corp. Around the clock, workmen were building two new ports on the Persian Gulf...