Word: construct
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blink of an eye these days, a carefully built construct of regulations can be blown away without so much as a formal hearing. As part of a crusade to curb federal authority, and with only a simple assertion that the regulations are burdensome, two congressional committees have sent to the floor for a vote this week legislation that would repeal federal standards. There would be no protection against patients' being restrained, no standards on staffing or when someone could be discharged after using up all his or her money. Niceties like nurses would be optional, since there is no requirement...
...Cambridge Savings Bank proposal would demolish four buildings, which are all joined by a single wooden facade and which contain 14 tenants, including the Wursthaus and the Tasty. The Bank would use the area to construct a new four-story building, and in the process create 60,000 square feet of retail space...
...gain privacy, a common room occupant must build a partition. But this is an expensive and time consuming proposition. First, students must obtain permission from the Master's office to build. Then, they must acquire the materials and construct it themselves, or hire an outside contractor to do it for them. For the mechanically inclined, the cost of materials itself can be high, in the hundreds of dollars. But those who must hire another to build for them may pay as much as $800 for their privacy...
However, like any other perspective, ethnic studies is in some ways limited, and is not a methodology in its own right. There are many ways to study ethnicity, and Harvard offers students the resources to explore race and ethnicity through its existing departments, and the flexibility to construct an interdisciplinary program where so appropriate...
More than four years after initiating a proposal to construct a small park in the roadway abutting the Inn at Harvard, groundbreaking is set to begin...