Word: erects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chance to visit a museum that commemorates the Holocaust. The point it makes is "Never again." Never again seems to me to be the most important lesson Haitian children can learn. We must transcend the past without drowning ourselves in forgetfulness or vengeance or impunity. I want to erect monuments to our martyrs and perhaps establish a museum like...
With Clinton's approval in hand, Jonassaint signed the agreement. The Defense Minister quit on the spot. Cedras sat mute. Then Powell asked him point-blank if he would accept the agreement. Cedras stood erect and pledged his word of honor that he would "obey the command of my president...
Moses went on to build many more monuments. F.D.R. went on to erect social programs as promiscuously as Moses built state parks. But the point of such activism was plain: government was to produce something tangible, visible, usa- ble for the ordinary working-class -- now called middle-class -- American family. That was the theory of the New Deal, with its unemployment insurance, old-age pensions and assorted public works. That was the animating vision that allowed American liberalism to dominate national politics for four decades...
...rent control supporters successfully erect any of these roadblocks, a vote on rent control would be delayed a year, two years or forever...
...height of real estate a-go-go, the developer and publisher Mort Zuckerman was chosen after an intense competition to erect a gigantic high-rise -- luxury condominiums! luxury offices! -- on government land at the southwestern corner of Central Park; he was a winner. But a coalition of liberal Manhattan swells, worried about the shadow the skyscraper would cast over the park, ruinously slowed down Zuckerman's plans; Mort was a loser. Then the commercial real estate market crashed, with Zuckerman, lucky for him, having built nothing; so he is a winner...