Word: constructed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever since MATEP was conceived more than a decade ago, Harvard financial planners have expected to replace the operating funds that were diverted to construct the plant with a low-interest borrowing scheme such as the upcoming issue...
Laudable in themselves and truly constructive in many communities, basic competency tests attempt to determine what students in all grades are learning by administering SAT-like batteries at least once a year. Massachusetts competency rules, actively implemented for the first time in 1980-81, allow communities to construct their own tests and set their own passing scores, though pre-designed and prescaled tests are also available. The Cambridge public school system this month began analyzing the results of its second battery of testsone set for third, sixth and eight-graders and another for high schoolers-and comparing them...
...years ago, doctors began to see more detail with a new kind of X-ray machine that uses a computer to construct clear, cross-sectional views of the body. The CAT scanner (for Computerized Axial Tomography) revolutionized radiology. But now that virtually every large hospital in the country has invested in one, at about a million dollars apiece, another revolution is under way: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, or NMR. Currently being studied for approval by the Food and Drug Administration, the new technology is in experimental use at about half a dozen top U.S. medical centers as well as several overseas...
...good writer can construct a play out of cardboard and paste, and, in the right hands, even the flimsiest plot can be turned into an amusing and diverting evening in the theater. But such hands have not come anywhere near this English import, which opened on Broadway last week. Rarely has so very little been made of so very little...
...deciding a similar case, the Rhode Island court ruled last week that the city of Pawtucket, R.I., could not construct a Nativity scene on municipal property...