Word: construction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gate house next to Johnston Gate in the Yard cost Harvard $25,000 to construct and was chosen from more than 330 design plans. But rather than opting for the amusement-park look, University officials at the time chose colonial-style architecture, hoping that the small structure would blend as unobtrusively as possible into its Yard surroundings...
...cautionary tale told by David Rosenbaum, an independent nuclear analyst in Washington, is about blackmail on a huge and frightening scale. A terrorist group manages to construct a nuclear weapon and uses it to blast the top off a peak in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The President is then told that other bombs have been planted in three U.S. cities and will be detonated unless he agrees to their terms: a total overseas troop withdrawal, an annual donation of $50 billion for Third World projects and the release of all black and Hispanic prisoners. It sounds like the stuff...
Jacqueline O'Neill, associate vice president for government and community affairs, said the University is cager to make a compromise and construct something on the site...
This spring, that search may have ended for main groups thanks to the long-awaited construct on of the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center (CMAC...
...before Ash Wednesday, the commencement of Lent, which means 40 days of penitence, blurred bibulously by last week in preponderantly Roman Catholic Louisiana, where the excesses were so fulsome, the wassail so all embracing, that the effect upon a paragrapher who participated was the loss of the ability to construct a straight sentence, or so it feels...