Word: construction
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...Estonian nationalist leader to blow up the monument. The park where the memorial is situated has since been cordoned off and remains under 24-hour police guard. Ask Heiki Ahonen, director of a museum dedicated to the Nazi and Soviet occupations, how Estonia is faring as it seeks to construct an integrated society, and he snorts: "This is not nation building; it's more like putting out fires." Perhaps the next generation will work out such tricky issues. Galja Burnakova, 29, taps the side of her head with her index finger. "The biggest problem is here," she says...
After chatting up a Home Depot employee, the rule-breaking rogue took all the necessary measurements, and was astonished to find that Home Depot was willing to cut all the lumber for him. A few boxes of screws and a power drill later, he was prepared to construct...
...Patrick was also the first of the Democratic candidates to support the Cape Wind project, which will construct a system of windmills in Nantucket Sound to provide most of Cape Cod’s electrical power. This is an important step in solidifying the Commonwealth’s image as a pioneer of sophisticated technology and renewable energy. Patrick’s audacious plans to give Massachusetts an economic identity is a refreshing departure from the Romney administration’s anti-stem cell moral politicking...
...with her party rivals, an indication, her campaign advisers insist, of her determination to create a new political dynamic in a France aching for change, one that depends on a direct connection to the voter. She has spurned ideological litmus tests in favor of a politics that helps people "construct their lives and the happiness of their loved ones," as she said recently to a massive crowd in Burgundy. That, say her aides, is evidence of the thing that most clearly sets Royal apart. She's a woman. In the view of Royal's supporters, her worst enemies...
...universe expanded, it finally cooled down enough to allow atoms to form and light to shine out across open space. The accidental discovery of that light back in the 1960s convinced astronomers that the Big Bang was a real event, not just a theoretical construct...