Word: erect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Companies' 6,000-acre Hawaii Kai residential and resort complex in Honolulu and the 87,500-acre Rancho California project 80 miles southeast of Los Angeles. In a similar venture, American Standard Inc., the plumbing potentate, joined last week with Herbert J. Kendall, a New Jersey builder, to erect a 715-acre community ten miles from Princeton...
...spite of Britain's efforts, the Russian influence is increasing. The Soviets have broadened their technical assistance and trade programs, have announced plans to erect a $120 million steel mill and, if Gowon is agreeable, intend to expand their embassy staff and open consulates in other Nigerian towns to put them in closer contact with labor and student groups. Meanwhile, Nigeria's British backers have been acutely embarrassed by Nigerian air attacks on undefended Biafran towns and hospitals. Britons who have protested bombing of civilians in Viet Nam now find their own nation indirectly supporting similar action...
Limiting Exports. Builders blame the price problem not only on heavy domestic demand, but on rising exports to Japan, whose timber purchases in the U.S. have increased twentyfold since 1960. Last year the Japanese bought enough lumber to erect 40% of the U.S. output of one-family homes. In response to complaints that numerous small lumber mills as well as price stability have been imperiled, Congress last fall sharply limited exports of lumber harvested from federal forests. But prices have continued to rise, partly because of severe winter weather in the Pacific Northwest and the recent East Coast longshoremen...
...market, and its researchers interviewed scores of Volkswagen owners. For a time, the planners considered importing great numbers of Ford-made cars from Britain or Germany instead of building them in North America. Executives discarded that idea in part because they figured that it might provoke Washington to erect import quotas or raise tariffs...
Efforts to erect the bubble were begun in December after a number of delays caused by the weather. The site was a football practice field at Baker Field. The bubble was quickly inflated but trouble came shortly. The anchors had not been securely buried, and several were pulled up by the wind...