Word: rebuilder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overcrowded county jail in El Paso, Texas, that U.S. District Court Judge William Sessions decided a year ago to order improvements. Little happened. A $17 million bond issue for a new jail was proposed; the voters turned it down. Then there was an attempt to rebuild part of the old jail, but that petered out amid charges that Sheriff Mike Sullivan was using construction workers to make improvements on his own home. This month, finding the jail still overcrowded. Judge Sessions declared Sheriff Sullivan and five other county officials in contempt. Instead of jailing them, however, he suspended their sentences...
Since 1975, the nation's herd has shrunk from 132 million to 116 million head, a seven-year low. Cattlemen are now holding their breeders back from markets to rebuild their stock. As a result, beef is becoming scarcer, and this summer the price of hamburger-quality meat is expected to go up by 15% to 20%. Steak cuts may climb...
This is not true. According to the British Survey of Palestine in 1946, "...more than 70 per cent was state land," claimed by whatever conqueror held sway at the time. Who else has the right to this deserted land if not the Jews who returned to rebuild it, after 6000 of them sacrificed their lives in a war thrust upon them by the Arabs...
...punctuated by the creeds based on, or taken from, the Bible, the creation of our ancestors when they were living on their own land, in Eretz-Israel. Eventually all those prayers and yearnings took the form of Zionism, a national liberation movement, and Jews began to come home and rebuild the country...
About 20 students and faculty members at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) have volunteered to help rebuild the eight Massachusetts communities declared disaster areas in the wake of this month's blizzard...