Word: fabricate
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...hidden ways. I would put forward one proposal, and he would advance the opposite point of view. In regard to social justice, he considers there are no problems in this area, but I think there are problems that keep the moral fabric of society in a state of tension. Remove this tension, and the sprouts of perestroika will start growing...
...lose affordable housing, we lose residents and the businesses, restaurants and shops which they patronize. So removal from rent control through condo conversion, whether from within (by current tenants) or without (by new tenants or by landlords) has far reaching economic and social results. The entire neighborhood fabric of Cambridge would change...
Perhaps it is time that some of our leviathan military budget, huge portions of which are channeled into conventional forces in West Germany and $500 million individual aircraft, could be given to the professed war on drugs that rents the fabric of our own society...
...surprise, then, is that two weekly shows about Viet Nam have established themselves on the prime-time schedule. To be sure, both of them -- CBS's Tour of Duty and ABC's China Beach -- add plenty of TV fabric softener to the abrasive material. Each fills its sound track with '60s pop songs, as if Viet Nam were just another trip down nostalgia lane, like high school mixers and afternoons at the malt shop. Both have taken a predominantly male experience and leavened it with female characters and soap-opera story lines closer to Dallas than Saigon...
Fifteen years ago, a court-ordered school desegregation plan tore apart the social fabric of Boston. Blacks bused to schools in white neighborhoods were threatened and even beaten, while many white politicians staked their political careers on attempts to reverse the progress towards racial integration in the schools. Boston city politics were defined by race...