Word: constructs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keene explains that the media have contributed a great deal to Bush's success. He adds that the networks and the major newspapers "construct a continuing series about somebody that develops. They [the voters] want somebody who's got some confidence, good grace and humor...
...fund it, scientists have effectively withdrawn into their laboratories, computer rooms, and think tanks. Doing largely their own thing, they specialize these days to an anomalously high degree. Sure, some scientists are crossing boundaries as research necessarily becomes more interdisciplinary, but few of them are willing to generalize, to construct but few of them are willing to generalize, to construct the big picture. It seems that the grand synthesizers have become virtually extinct...