Word: constructions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Consider the case of Eileen Carlton, 65, of Danvers, Mass., who had a stroke five years ago and lost almost all ability to speak. Today, working with a visual-communications computer program designed by linguists at the Tufts University School of Medicine, Carlton uses symbols to construct sentences, so that she can communicate with her family and friends. "This has opened a whole new world to her," says her son Bill, 39. "Writing is too complicated for her, but she knows what she wants to say. So instead of spending the rest of her life playing charades, she uses symbols...
...this New Paradigm, as some say, only a bright intellectual flourish meant to cover the retreat of the Federal Government from almost everything? "No," says Pinkerton, "it is an intellectual construct to make things work. It is a way of thinking about change and making it rational. I have never said we should cut spending. The conventional wisdom around Washington is that nothing works. Americans don't believe...
...addition, Iraqi plans to construct nuclear weapons would go unchecked. Perhaps most important, a complete withdrawal would give a green light to other would-be aggressors...
...able to take a random class here or there about the writings of Black women because in that way too many people fall through the cracks. I find it insulting that in order to read in depth the works of several Black women authors I have to construct a special tutorial for myself...
State officials contend that Scheme Z is the only workable way to implement their multibillion dollar plan to construct a new Central Artery underneath Boston, and Secretary of Environmental Affairs John DeVillars is scheduled to rule on the project on January...