Word: erect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could be combined with a modest building program to encourage home ownership in the city. Though more than a thousand acres of largely abandoned areas in The Bronx and Brooklyn are next to slums, they are potentially desirable because they are conveniently located. The city could clear them and erect row houses to be sold to middle-class buyers. Says I.D. Robbins, a builder and former president of the City Club, a civic watchdog group: "There is a tremendous capital investment left over from the time these neighborhoods thrived. All that is missing is people...
...CITY as crowded as Cambridge, where open space belongs on the endangered species list, Harvard deserves praise for staunchly preserving its pastoral lot on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Plympton Streets. The University has held fast, in the face of city pressure to erect a parking garage there. Likewise it has shelved earlier proposals to build on the grassy plot...
...Israel will not have to repay-as a "reward" for the new peace agreement. Of the additional $750 million, U.S. officials reckon that $250 million will cover cost increases for military hardware, $150 million will be used to dismantle Israel's old defense lines in the Sinai and erect new ones, and $350 million will compensate Jerusalem for the loss of revenues from the Abu Rudeis oil wells...
...their space effort, launching up to six manned flights a year. After several explosions, they may also make a new effort to send up their huge G-l 6 booster, which is even larger than the U.S. Saturn 5. If it works, the Russian; could use it to erect a large space station, set up lunar bases and perhaps send off manned voyages to other planets...
...even severely strapped Italy and Britain (see chart). What is more, the need for additional goods and technology has never been greater. In the next few years, enormous outlays will be required to develop alternative sources of energy such as nuclear power, build the Alaska pipeline, improve pollution controls, erect more efficient factories and continue rebuilding the decaying cities...