Word: construction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...youngsters can also learn the art of boatbuilding while they watch skilled workmen construct a full-size craft...
...know how widespread this provocation was or how it would have gone if I had not been expelled from the Soviet Union. Apparently the aim was to arrest some Russian emigres from the West who were visiting Prague and to construct around them a criminal case that would have demonstrated that I had links with emigre organizations. "Links with the outside" is a beloved theme song of Soviet propaganda...
Baaron B. Pittenger Jr., associate director of the Department of Athletics, said yesterday that the University does not plan to construct a large number of tennis courts in the near future, because of a lack of available land...
From several standpoints, nuclear power seems an ideal answer to the continuing energy problem in the U.S. For utilities, it makes economic sense to construct plants that use heat from splitting atoms of uranium to spin turbines that generate electric power. Though the average plant costs 10% to 30% more to build than one that burns coal or oil, operating costs are much lower. Nuclear plants are also relatively kind to the environment. They discharge hot water that can harm aquatic life and change the characteristics of lakes; but they cause no air pollution, no spills at sea, no strip...
...year, improved transportation and communication led to increased contact with the city, and the peasants became less and less willing to live, as their ancestors did, on a bare subsistence diet of corn and dried potatoes. Whole communities picked up and moved to La Paz, where they managed to construct a roof over their heads, but, for a long time, little more. Life in the Indian district of the city is a resurrection of the ancient customs of the small villages of the altiplano. Without this sprawling marketplace to serve as both an economic and social center, the migrating peasants...