Word: constructively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time of sectarian divisiveness, Brooks urged unity and common cause in service to humanity. He proposed that the University construct a building, which, he said, "should be generously used for all the various interests of university life, and should unite and strengthen many undertakings which now rather tend to divide the forces which make for good among the students." After Brooks' death in 1893, a group of alumni who followed and admired his teachings raised funds to build Phillips Brooks House...
...pile of legal and diplomatic documents the three Presidents signed add up to an extremely complex new design for Bosnia that will be hard to construct and easy to paralyze. It turns the country into a republic containing two "entities." American officials insist this is not a partition and that Bosnia is a unified state, but other observers, including Bosnians, are not so sure. The Bosnian Serb holdings, the Republika Srpska, total 49% of the land. The other entity is a federation of Muslims-- called Bosniacs in the documents--and Bosnian Croats. All citizens will be free to travel...
...Blowing bubbles of spittle and waving their fat legs in the air, they look, he marvels, virtually identical to their Cambrian cousin Aysheaia, whose evocative portrait appears in the pages of the Burgess Shale. Soon Carroll hopes to answer a pivotal question: Is the genetic tool kit needed to construct a velvet worm smaller than the one the arthropods...
...first is a proposal by Cambridge Savings Bank to demolish four buildings in the Square which contain 14 tenants including the Tasty and the Wursthaus restaurants. The bank hopes to construct a new four-story building and in the process create 60,000 square feet of retail space...
While on the council, Born helped implement the City Home program, which allocates funds to construct and renovate middle-income housing projects. She has also worked to double the number of federally funded summer food program sites in the city...