Word: erection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...living than disease, hunger, indignity and prejudice, and whether it be in our cities or in other countries, they mean to have their fair share of the earth's bounties. We must create conditions in which people can fulfill their destiny as human beings and can stand erect and with dignity as children of God-starting with our own fellow citizens here at home...
...proposed Holocaust memorial raises two questions: 1) Why should Americans erect a monument to those who died as a result of a crime in which the U.S. had no part? and 2) Why not commemorate all victims of genocide? The answer to these questions lies in the realization that the destruction of the Jews was an irrational act that had no political, economic or military justification. The slaughter was the logical outcome of a twisted ideology based on the concept of a master race and was a unique phenomenon in history. All countries should have a Holocaust monument so that...
While athletic department officials--as well as most of the facilities' users--count those two structures as well-schemed successes, neither project was without problems. Contractors worked throughout last summer to install enough seating to span the length of the 100-yard field, then scrambled to erect seats in the enclosed end of the stadium in time for The Game. "Before the Yale game, there was round-the-clock pressure to get the seats in," Athletic Director John P. Reardon Jr. '60 says. Construction workers did not complete the seating until the Tuesday before the Yale game...
...help Third World countries put Landsat data to good use, the U.S. has trained some of their citizens to read the photographs and helped them erect ground stations to receive data directly. The Brazilians have used Landsat to reroute segments of their trans-Amazon highway around swamps and other obstacles. Anyone can purchase the photographs. Even the U.S.S.R. and China have bought them, sometimes of each other's terrain. Indeed, the program has been so successful in spotting resources-copper deposits in Pakistan, tin in Bolivia-that some nations have condemned the orbital photography as economic spying...
Armed with red, white and blue charts detailing the Soviet military threat, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger marched up to Capitol Hill to erect a defiant rampart around his $239 billion share of the $848 billion budget. After three days of crossfire from Congressmen of both parties, the Iron Duke of Defense emerged battered but unbending. "We simply cannot reduce defense spending any further without undermining the security of the United States," he adamantly declared...