Word: erect
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...hiring new employees. They supply funds to train workers or pay part of their wages while they are in training, and provide scientific and engineering assistance to solve workplace technical problems. They repave existing roads and build new ones. They lend money at bargain-basement interest rates to erect plants or buy equipment. They excuse corporations from paying sales and property taxes and relieve them from taxes on investment income...
...plan, which would erect new buildings on the current site of the University Information Services (UIS) building and Coolidge Hall and connect them with tunnels underneath Cambridge Street, was presented by Henry N. Cobb '47. Cobb's firm, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, is handling the design of the project...
...Well, they'd have to...measure it erect. I mean, like...
Ironically, the news came just as I thought I'd reached a detente with the boosters on the subject of meat. Several years ago, I suggested dismantling one of the fountains and using the material to erect a monument to Henry Perry, who brought barbecue to Kansas City. Since I had just suggested that the airport, which they called Kansas City International, be named after Arthur Bryant, perhaps the most distinguished of Perry's spiritual descendants, and that a major Missouri River bridge be named for Chicken Betty Lucas, the legendary pan-fryer, some people thought my suggestion about...
...what's it like to live, work and play in one of those dozens of places that dress up billboards, fly flags and erect monuments and museums to a product or an idea? You've come to the right place, because we have all the answers, centered, as we are, in the news and information capital of the world. We have sat on porches and in parlors, toured factories and roamed Main Streets. We will now take you to the fireworks capital of the entire galaxy--or at least of Pennsylvania--and whisk you into the clouds to meet...