Word: erecting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...basic task is the same: erect an old-fashioned pyramid of donors in which each operative identifies 10 to 20 people who can each give $1,000, the maximum allowed by law. Each donor is then pressed to identify another 10 to 20 friends to do the same. The complex task of assembling so many names helps explain why veteran fund raisers, who boast networks of anywhere from 2,500 to 10,000 potential donors, have been courted so heavily by Dole, Gramm and Alexander in 1994 and 1995. "The objective is to find 20,000 people to give...
...works, the plan is to widen it to as many as 1.5 million homes in Montreal and Quebec City. Outside the relatively well-wired confines of North America, however, getting connected can still be a frustrating and costly experience. In Europe and parts of Asia, monopolistic state telephone systems erect a bewildering array of speed limits and tollgates that make traveling the Infobahn a costly and often frustrating experience. High long-distance fees and connection surcharges levied by monopolistic government communications ministries can make the use of the Internet and such services as CompuServe and America Online unduly expensive...
...erect signposts on those back roads. until recently, there was nothing like a directory to guide consumers around the Net. Now there are all kinds of directories available, from shopping listings to business-to- business directories. Online shopping centers are springing up everywhere, inviting customers to use their credit cards to buy on impulse, without even leaving their chairs. Since opening its interactive doors last October, Cybermalls, a Vermont shopping center with nearly 60 ONLINE BUSINESSES ranging from a coffee store to a marine equipment shop, has built up bustling traffic, in part, by offering free information on SKI CONDITIONS...
...then that the EPA mandated that the village lay new pipes, erect a sewage-treatment plant, close the dump and build an incinerator. While the EPA eventually footed $18 million of the initial $32 million expense of the treatment plant, the village was forced to raise utility bills to pay the rest, and the costs associated with the improvements continue to climb. That helped bring Key West's cost of living to the highest level in the state, forcing many "conches"-native Key Westers-to move away. Even so, John Jones, the village engineer, admits "it was something the city...
...Leverett House. "Perspective is important," he says, "because those who are not Christian often perceive such symbols as religious, while Christians perceive them as secular. But the fact is, other religious groups, such as Jews and Muslims, don't celebrate Christmas, and when a House uses students' money to erect Christmas trees, they ignore a substantial portion of the House population...