Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When the Cooperative Power Association began projecting costs in the early 70s, they claimed that the low-grade lignite mined in North Dakota would be cheap enough to make up for the $220 million more it would cost to build the plant in North Dakota and to construct the 800 kv line. Once that decision was made, the cost of lignite quadrupled...
...began start-up operations six months ago. The centerpiece of an industrial and agricultural complex of audacious scope and cost, the plant stands on a company-owned property of about 5,800 sq. mi., which is larger than Connecticut. The pulp factory and its ancillaries cost $400 million to construct. A companion plant is expected to be towed up the river and put in operation by the mid-1980s. To feed the plants with young trees, a vast reforestation is under way that will clear the land of old growth and establish huge new timber farms. The principal planting...
...could construct a kind of "worst-case scenario" to prove that the U.S., with the rest of the West, has fallen into dangerous decline. The case might be argued thus: the nation's pattern is moral and social failure, embellished by hedonism. The work ethic is nearly as dead as the Weimar Republic. Bureaucracies keep cloning themselves. Resources vanish. Education fails to educate. The system of justice collapses into a parody of justice. An underclass is trapped, half out of sight, while an opulent traffic passes overhead. Religion gives way to narcissistic self-improvement cults...
Through instinct, knowledge, persuasion, intelligence, craft, ex ample, patience, inspiration and compromise, they must construct a new American consensus...
...shortage may soon be eased. In the most dramatic display yet of the controversial genetic engineering technique known as recombinant DNA, independent teams at the University of California in San Francisco and at a small commercial research firm, Genentech Inc., in nearby Palo Alto, used human pituitary tissue to construct the gene, or DNA segment, responsible for the production of somatotropin. They then implanted it in the genetic machinery of a laboratory strain of the common intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli. The gene splicing worked: the re-engineered bugs began to make...