Word: constructed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have agreed to press for a full withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon as soon as possible. Most difficult will be the question of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, which Labor wanted to freeze and Likud wanted to keep building and expanding. The parties have agreed to construct five of 27 previously approved settlements during the next year and to postpone decisions on other settlement questions. Future Israeli participation in any U.S.-sponsored peace initiative will require the support of both Labor and Likud and thus may not be possible to achieve...
...developed to monitor the U.S. interests in peace or war. Unfortunately, it has grown indifferent to this task, and so has HONEST ANNIE, its superior and supposedly foolproof successor. Says one of the commentators on this debacle: "In a word, it had cost the United States $276 billion to construct a set of luminal philosophers." GOLEM lapses into total silence but leaves behind several lectures in which it puts Homo sapiens in an unflattering light ("After its early mastery, Evolution got bogged down in bungling"). The computer may ultimately be right. But for the time being, in Imaginary Magnitude...
...this smart dumb guy, into the svelte body of a comic-movie hero. It has not always been a snug fit. In Pennies from Heaven he was gung-ho but overwhelmed by the musical machinery; in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid he got lost in a clever construct of old movie clips. By the time The Man with Two Brains came out, Martin's stand-up audience had deserted him. A pity: they missed a small, funny film that provided, in its Frankenstein plot of a surgeon in love with the body of one woman...
...accounts the President is by nature a passive man who needs to be set in motion by others. Deaver knows how and when to stir him, how to construct an agenda that Reagan then cheerfully pursues. Like no one except Nancy Reagan, he knows the President's inner feelings. He reads the President's diaries, which Reagan dictates into a tape recorder. Deaver's office, at the insistence of the President, adjoins the Oval Office. He is privy to the problems Reagan has with his children. At the end of a hard day last year, the President...
Hackers, says Turkle, are social misfits who construct digital Utopias, hang out in pancake houses and admire the recursive art of M.C. Escher. At M.I.T their nerdy abdication from society is "sport death"-programming for up to 30 hours without sleep before "crashing." Alex, a dedicated hacker, describes it as feeling "totally telepathic with the computer...