Word: constructively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buoyant $10,000,000 National Aquarium to be transparently clear and open. Located at Haines Point, in spacious Potomac Park, it is to be crowned by a 114-ft.-high greenhouse, shaped like a streamlined horseshoe, which will permit scientists from the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife to construct complete ecologies, or natural environments, within it. Reconstructed portions of the Florida Everglades, coral reefs and East and West Coast tidal pools will display not only fish but also insects and even birds in native common habitats...
...rhetoric of riot is easy. It's not hard to go into the poorest section of Roxbury and amass a sympathetic audience by enumerating Whitey's misdeeds over the years. It is easier, in fact, to do that then to construct a Black Movement based not on racial hatred but rather on political, economic, and social progress in the Negro community...
...characters are impersonal, time floats out the window, and action is as fragmented as a cracked kaleidoscope. The casual reader may well have trouble telling one anti-novelist from another, but in the case of Marguerite Duras, the problem is simple: she is the only natural writer. The others construct fiction to demonstrate a pet theory. She writes about people and their moods with incomparable ease and sensuality...
...most basic defenses against injury. As such, Dr. Houck pointed out, it has to be enormously versatile because the injury may be a stabbing or abrasive wound, a burn, or invasion by infectious microbes. Even a sterile, uninfected wound summons inflammation to its aid. Since nature cannot construct individual defenses against an infinite variety of attacks from innumerable sources, said the Upjohn Co.'s Dr. E. Myles Glenn, it mobilizes everything at hand-the immune and clotting mechanisms, the blood-forming and lymph systems, the liver, and many others. Sometimes it overreacts to the injury; sometimes it damages...
...required to construct the ITP facilities came from an anonymous donor. The program trains foreign teachers of business management, especially those from underdeveloped countries...