Word: construction
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...Miami Workers Center. Local anger boiled over recently at a housing scandal that Perera's group helped the Miami Herald expose: Miami-Dade's government housing agency paid millions of dollars to politically connected developers for low-income projects that were never built or were used to construct private condominiums instead. "This is a greedy city," says Yvonne Stratford, 52, an unemployed seafood-warehouse worker who had hoped to live in one of the new low-income units...
...Putnam’s findings. But in the second-to-last paragraph, reporter Lloyd paraphrased Putnam as saying that immigration benefits “importing” and “exporting” countries. Lloyd quoted Putnam as saying that trends “have been socially constructed, and can be socially reconstructed.” And in the final paragraph, Lloyd quoted Putnam as saying, “We should construct...
...introducing comparative reading because it allows us to measure the broad reading comprehension construct in a way that parallels a common task that law students perform—comparing and contrasting texts,” Jim Vaseleck, the executive assistant to the president at LSAC, wrote in an e-mail...
...directors, and the cast, believe in the small world they reinvented each week? I think they believed in it as a TV reality. What?s more, they sold that reality to the audience with the entrepreneurial conviction Jim must have used on his clients. It was a slick construct, and it was good...
Still, being a pioneer has its growing pains. The ElderSpirit group ran out of money when it unexpectedly had to pay $250,000 to construct a retaining wall on the property. Residents are looking for funds to complete the interior of the common house and four adjoining apartments. In the meantime, they try to keep team spirit going with communal meals about twice a month. One was recently held at the town's senior center, and residents have picnicked on the nearby Virginia Creeper Trail. At other times, there are informal meals in one another's kitchens...