Word: construct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...olive trees were uprooted. The Zeroud and Marguelil rivers, swirling together, created a torrent eight miles wide. The force was so great that 100-ton concrete slabs, used to anchor bridges, were hurled downstream. An irrigation project that took two years and $7,000,000 to construct was washed away in six hours. As late as last week the Mediterranean was still an oozing ochre sore from the Gulf of Tunis to the Gulf of Bou Grara because of topsoil washed into the sea by the boiling rivers...
...thing to lose, and I read a lot of sci-fi, new and old, before I realized that what is wrong with most of the good old favorites is the same thing that ails the newspapers: they give easy answers. Let me construct a typical passage...
...speak out, Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample Inc. received a flood of congratulations, including one note allowing that "maybe Madison Avenue isn't all bad after all." The ad that has so far drawn the most active response was by Young & Rubicam (Oct. 24), which urged citizens to help construct play areas in ghettos and reminded everyone that little parks can be built even with nickels. To date, the ad has brought in $26,000, of which $16,000 will immediately be spent for a minipark in the heart of Harlem. Contributors ranged from a foundation that gave...
...gift, which was made through the Program for Science, will provide nearly half of the funds needed to construct the $32 million building...
...Poor Price Index. Actually, price increases are less painful for the poor than for the middle class and wealthy, the two analysts maintain. They have rejiggered the figures in the Government's consumer price index, which is largely based on middle-class spending patterns, to construct a "poor price index"; it gives more weight to increases in food and rent expenses, less importance to rises in clothing, transportation, medical and education costs. Between 1965 and 1967, the last year for which they calculated the poor price index, it rose 5.1%, compared with a 5.8% increase...