Word: construction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Simon's idea of high comedy is to construct sitcom-like scenarios of marital tension and infidelity, milking all the lame laughter he can get out of it. In California Suite, four couples come at different times to the same suite of a posh hotel. They proceed to harangue each other, making snide remarks about their mates' sexual prowess, and to show how very un-funny California life...
...attempting to construct a life vest tha would prevent Navy pilots from becoming hypothermic when their planes land in water, a center spokesman said...
Rono added that UNIHAB had originally planned to wrap the condominiums around the now burned building until the leases were over. Then, she said, the company planned to tear down the building and construct an urban park...
...panel will include former CIA Director Richard Helms and former Joint Chiefs Chairman General John Vessey. Four other groups, including the Foreign Intelligence Board, are investigating aspects of the scandal. Former CIA Official Bobby Inman last week offered a novel solution for the bugged building: Americans should "very carefully" construct three secure floors...
...most accounts, the project has been jinxed from the time the U.S. and the Soviet Union began discussing a joint agreement to construct new embassies 24 years ago. Throughout the decades of haggling over the plan, the U.S. consistently got the short end of the deal. Says Lawrence Eagleburger, an assistant to the Secretary of State under Richard Nixon: "Every Administration since Johnson got snookered on this...