Word: erection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...launched next year. The rerouting would require the building of 25 dams and numerous pumping stations. As the barriers go up, they would raise river levels a section at a time, until the water no longer reached the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean. The builders would also erect colossal dikes across the mouths of the rivers, creating great fresh-water bays. The first northern water should begin flowing southward into the Volga through a network of canals and reservoirs by the late 1980s...
Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci couldn't believe that it would cost $2500 to erect signs changing the name of Boylston St. to John F. Kennedy St. "They must want to make them out of gold," Vellucci said at last Monday's City Council meeting, postponing the funding request for a week. Vellucci said that before he would approve the $2500. "I'll make them [the signs] myself...
...What happened in Dacca was no football match," Yah Yah Khan, the Pakistani leader, is reported to have said at the time. And indeed it wasn't. The drive into Fast Bengal had been calculated with excruciating directness to erect a new social order there, a political unit that would continue the support of West Pakistan's dominance over the economic and political life of the nation. With the March pogrom designed to wipe out an of rusive Hindu minority and seed a loyal Moslem middle class, the military leaders hoped they could create a province loyal to be whims...
...there came before the Democratic Convention of 1932 a man who was so wasted by polio that he could not stand erect without leg braces, but who promised his stricken nation "a new order of competence and courage," and who declared: "This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms...
...concern common to both University and community that if they couldn't agree on some development plan, some other developer would erect something worse in the future. The leading candidate was Louis DiGiovanni, who sold the land to the University. Harvard used a buy-back agreement with the developer--who once wanted twin 20-story towners on the site--as leverage in their discussions with the community; University officials admitted privately, that they were not happy at the prospect of losing control of the southwest corner of the Square...