Word: constructed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that it’s beginning to feel some heat, the administration is reassessing its alternatives. The latest news is that they’re working to construct an expedited FDA approval process that could sanction FDC procurement in a matter of months. We’ll see. It is unlikely that any such process will be set up before September, at the earliest. In any case, establishing a parallel approval process to the WHO’s is not the solution. This would just pave the way for political interference in future scientific decisions and, as Waxman notes, lead...
...preparing to oversee the implementation of a reshaped curriculum for Harvard College. And the proposals outlined in the recently completed curricular review report echo, almost precisely, Little Ricky’s thoughts. The opening paragraph of the summary of the principal recommendations concludes, “We aim to construct a curriculum that expands the choices open to our undergraduates as it prepares them to be independent, knowledgeable, and creative individuals.” The way to do that, the report concludes, is to replace what Summers The Elder termed in last year’s Commencement address...
...rely on pseudosciences like phrenology and eugenics, instead using genetics and evolutionary theory to argue that “there’s no evidence that shows a relation between physiology and mental or moral behavior.” Rather, he argued, “race is a social construct...
...rest of the lecture, Jones expounded on why that construct has proven so persistent throughout human history. “One answer,” Jones said, “lies in the dread of ‘otherness’ … it may be that this alien is our own creation, the imagined antithesis of our own kin.” While that “mythological” construct, as Jones described it, gave the basis for racism, the motivation for racism, he argued, came from the fact that “someone always profits from...
...were incorrect, either because judges misunderstood the law or disregarded it. Foreign bankers and investors often have trouble enforcing contracts in Indonesian courts. In one case, a court last year nullified a $180 million loan made by a syndicate of foreign lenders to property developer Danareksa Jakarta International to construct the Jakarta Stock Exchange building, saying the loan circumvented Indonesian borrowing laws and therefore need not be repaid. The creditors are appealing, but one, U.S. investment firm Lone Star, is so fed up that it has vowed not to pursue new business in Indonesia. "Indonesia is never really going...