Word: construction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each generation has to reinvent the past: to construct its own Watteau, even its own Leonardo. The new outlines never quite coincide with the old. This is true of modern art, too, which itself has become old; and it even applies to impressionism, the most accessible, popular modern movement of all. Sometimes later styles "reinterpret" earlier ones, as abstract expressionism fostered the present veneration of the late works of Monet...
South Carolina's prison system, designed to hold 4,800 prisoners, is now trying to contain 8,200. In Texas 2,650 of the state's 32,000 inmates last week were sleeping on floors rather than in beds. There are plans to construct new cellblocks; meanwhile, tents are being set up to house 1,320 prisoners. Claims Texas Governor Bill Clements: "If tents are good enough for the Army, Marines and National Guard, they are good enough for the inmates." At Joliet Correctional Center in Illinois, 1,205 prisoners compete for space in a prison built...
...Soviet Union. But while the U.S. Government has stopped trade by some American companies, foreign firms have sometimes flouted U.S. policy. The French, for example, signed a contract last September to build the steel factory that Armco could not. And after Alcoa was forbidden last year to construct a Soviet aluminum smelter, a West German firm went ahead with the project...
...Administration's foreign policy has so far been guided by a basic them-or-us strategy: trying to construct an allied consensus to counter Soviet expansionism. The Soviets are not the only ones who make that difficult. An unexpected election result in France, a rocketing confrontation in the Middle East that neither superpower wants, and contrary congressional committees are just a few of the roadblocks confronted by those who formulate policy in an uncertain world...
...Never again." But he seems to have little patience with the grievances of the Arabs or understanding of their rights, and too often he shapes a policy that invites attack. Peres, who observes the vow less flamboyantly, seems more open to Arab concerns. He tends to look forward to construct Israel's future in ways that defuse such attack...