Word: erect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration has advanced the so-called permissive interpretation, under which development and testing of those systems and their components would be allowed. That would mean that as soon as the ten-year moratorium on deployment ended, the U.S. might have some kind of partial defensive system ready to erect on short notice, or so the Soviets fear...
April 21: CONSERVATIVES ERECT GULAG...
...Tenley E. Albright, an officer at the Advanced Medical Research Foundation, said preventive medicine is the most effective tool in fighting smoking. Since "nobody likes a cigarette the first time," it is important to deglamorize smoking to young adults and erect obstacles such as higher insurance bills and public smoking ordinances to discourage smoking, she said...
...Lovers, all the movement is in nature. Sunlight and a breeze rush in through the window; a leaf has just sailed past the sill and stops for a moment to have its picture taken. Helga is perched on a stool, her body erect, her fingers splayed under her haunches, her head averted toward her shadow on the wall, or toward an unseen lover. The work's title teases meaning out of enigma. Who are the lovers? Helga and the unseen figure? The model and her shadow? The artist and his model...
...unprecedented arrangement will allow U.S. seismologists to place three monitoring stations within 100 miles of Semipalatinsk, 1,800 miles from Moscow in eastern Kazakhstan, and Soviet scientists to erect their sensors near Yucca Flats, Nev., where U.S. universities have monitored underground tests for years. (Atmospheric tests were halted in 1963 after the U.S. and the Soviet Union signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty.) The U.S. team, led by University of Colorado Seismologist Charles Archambeau, will place digital seismometers in three 300-ft.-deep holes drilled by the Soviets. A two-man team will remain near Semipalatinsk to monitor the findings...