Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that you have the setting, you must construct a plot around the basic love-story theme of boy meeting girl- which is merely the skeleton. Segal cleverly dresses up his skeleton with class conflict- he chooses a poor Cliffie as the girl his richboy hero meets- and a sad ending. The sad ending is a good device: it prevents reviewers from degrading fiction by calling it "light" or "trivial...
...parking spaces of the program represent the minimum Harvard must build during the next five years to comply with local zoning codes' parking requirements for buildings the University plans to construct during that period...
...unlikelihood of the state's actually taking over the Stadium does not make the bill pointless. At the least, it helps to divert Patriot fans' attention from the legislature's own record on the stadium issue. For years, bills to construct a new stadium for the team have come up in the legislature and for years, they have died there. Building a new stadium is an expensive proposition-from 830 to 850 million by various estimates-and virtually all of the proposals for a stadium admit that it cannot pay its own way. A deficit would have to be financed...
...production under way, Boeing had to construct one of the world's largest buildings?a plant covering 42.8 acres at Everett, Wash. Inside that vast space, the engineers encountered vast problems. The aircraft's weight grew by 15 tons from its projected 340 tons, and Pratt & Whitney had to rush development of a still more powerful engine. Because it burns its fuel more efficiently than other engines, the 747 is virtually free of the greasy smoke that trails ordinary jets on takeoff like ink from a frightened squid. Its engine is only half as loud as a 707's, though...
Only when the Corporation can be suspended and criminally prosecuted for its racist policies, when it appears on campus, will it be possible to construct a legitimate disciplinary body for this community...