Word: constructed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...absence of the needed full revamping of Harvard housing, Rosovsky should at least have made an honest effort to face the challenge presented by inadequate facilities at the Quad. Instead Fox's plan as approved by Rosovsky ignores the hard facts of Quad life. Rosovsky's agreement to construct an addition to the South House dining hall and several other token improvements in the Quad environment, such as the opening of the Currier House art and woodworking facilities to use by all the Quad's residents, are only weak palliatives designed to sell the Fox plan to Quad students...
...down; people talk slower, move slower, time passes more slowly. There was a perverse logic to it--you needed more time, but the Law of the Conservation of Time prevented that, you couldn't make time. But you could stretch out the time you did have, slow it down, construct the illusion of creating more time. Everything slowed down. The perverse part was only one thing didn't slow down, and that...
...headaches of statehood: economic breakdowns, government corruption, social unrest, international disapprobation. With a dwindling immigration rate and increasing unrest among the Sephardic Jewish population, the last thing Israel needs is an antagonistic Arab minority. The official approach of suspicion and suppression, as well as the failure of officials to construct a positive, integrative policy towards the Arabs, has been a major mistake of Israel's first quarter-century. Unless the first faltering steps which have been made toward a more constructive policy are followed by firmer equalizing measures--which Begin seems unlikely to institute--Israel faces a growing menace...
...rungs in Richard Nixon's ladder to success were made of human beings. After listening to his answers the other night, I feel certain he would like to construct another such ladder...
While most seniors spent this year writing theses for a limited audience, one senior decided to share his thesis experience and construct a life-size maze in the Lowell House courtyard last week...