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...development, possession and transfer of chemical weapons and would call for their destruction--given the wide-spread support it has already garnered--will enter into force with or without American ratification. Yet, the United States has so far balked at ratifying the CWC, a treaty that President Bush helped construct in 1991 and that all living presidents and secretaries of state stand behind...
...Another reason is that literary fiction of the past two decades, good at dramatizing personal crises, has rarely attempted to engage the tumult of the wider world. Social disorder is handled more efficiently in nonfiction, journalism or seductively moving images. Who needs to plow through an imaginative verbal construct when the content is available in more accessible forms...
Started in 1994, the Boston-based ICIC uses research and consulting to encourage companies to construct and improve enterprises in the inner city...
When HSPH wanted to construct a new building, it proposed that it run a welfare to work program for its Mission Hill neighbors, in lieu of giving the $300,000, normally required of developers, to Boston's Neighborhood Job Trust...
...trying to construct means of prevention and safety that will avoid tragedy," he said. "We're not happy waiting for the phone to ring, waiting for the next tragedy to happen...