Word: constructed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposed law. Opponents say that existing safeguards are adequate and some citizens groups object that the law would by pass local decisionmaking. Researchers, despite the exemptions tear that the law will severely restrict their activities. They explain that it would be too costly for individual laboratories or universities to construct their own storage and disposal facilities...
Defenders of the law, however, argue that there are adequate safeguards to protect community interests and that it is feasible for researchers to construct their own facilities, especially if done cooperatively. Albert M. Giordano, campaign director of the Massachusetts Nuclear Referendum Campaign, characterizes the campaign as one between "populists" and "elitists". Giordano insists that the public is competent to decide the siting of nuclear facilities and that the law would institute a safer and more democratic mechanism for doing so. Polls consistently show that a majority of votes support...
...primary point that Reagan tried to make in his TV speech was that his Administration had to bring down inflation in order to construct the base for any lasting reduction of unemployment. Skillfully using electronic charts that displayed moving lines, the President asserted that through the 1970s every economic recovery had been aborted by a surge of inflation that triggered a "deadly, delayed reaction of rising unemployment." In contrast, he recited current figures on declining interest rates and the drop in inflation. Not only is a recovery coming, said Reagan, but "this one is built to last...
Such gestures constitute normality. In the millions and woven together, they combine to construct what we shyly call civilization, as does the work of the company that makes the pill, the one that packs and distributes it, the Government agency that examines and sanctions it, the store that stocks and sells it, and so forth, all tied together by nettings in which life hangs, as they say, in the balance. Fascinating, how easily that balance can be threatened. Fascinating too how it protects and sustains itself...
...penny of that, which includes the sums forthcoming from 330 theater parties that have signed up for special blocks of seats. The show cost a princely $4 million or so to mount. It cost $2.5 million to strip-mine the interior and stage of the Winter Garden Theater and construct a cats' Valhalla of a nocturnal dump. Cost of restoration when Cats eventually vacates: an additional $1.5 million...