Word: erect
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...MANY of those people were from Red Hook? That's the run-down section of Brooklyn where the inhabitants had an almost perfect view of the celebration. That is, they had a perfect view until the head honchos decided to erect high walls along the waterfront so that people waiting to be ferried to their $5000 seats wouldn't have to view one of Brooklyn's poorest neighborhoods...
Religion. Burger could be found on both sides of the separation between church and state. In 1984 he wrote the decision permitting Pawtucket, R.I., to erect a creche as part of its Christmas display but struck down a Connecticut law giving workers the right to a day off on their Sabbath. Scalia is expected to agree with Rehnquist's view that there is no "wall" between church and state...
Such proficiency tests are not likely to expand too far into other departments, Pihl said. "If we erect too many barriers it contradicts our mission. We don't want to close people...
QUICK: WHO WEARS double-breasted suits, does honors work in economics and chemistry, is going to Harvard Law next year, and manages to erect gulags in the Yard in his spare time...
Unlike their Cambridge counterparts, the house masters decided to erect the $850 metal grates on the coldest night of the winter. And unlike Cambridge, this was Harvard...