Word: constructively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next challenge for Clinton will be to construct similar centrist coalitions to pass health-care reform, welfare reform and other contentious initiatives. The NAFTA group "is not really a coalition at all," said a White House official. "It just proves that anytime you get the business community behind something, you get a lot of Republicans. And anytime you get the President, you get a third of the Democratic Party." Indeed, days after the NAFTA vote, a similar group of moderate Democrats and Republicans was poised to approve $90 billion in budget cuts sponsored by John Kasich of Ohio...
...panelists downplayed recent reports that some "victims" become convinced in the course of therapy that they were abused as children and construct memories with little basis in reality...
...other. Quite apart from the biological urge to reproduce, the unique properties of the relation between man and woman are such that a life lived apart from that relation will be "imperfect and stunted." Human sexuality is not simply a means of physical gratification, nor simply a mental construct, but a compound of the physical and psychological close to the root of our humanity...
...effort in Somalia displays an attractive American tendency: the impulse to construct idealistic policy out of generous feelings. The danger is that such international idealism may be shallow and short-lived, a sort of sentimentality of the privileged...
...hasn't happened yet, but we can dream, can't we? Sleek hardwood floors. Open, airy space. Bottles of pretty liquids set charmingly against soothing, light wood shelves. You can almost smell the construct-your-own-scent counter from the street. For all appearances, this new boutique is to be a sandbox for the stressed yuppie...