Word: reconstructing
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TIME: Can you imagine British troops contributing to stability through long-term peacekeeping? BLAIR: No. You can't determine exactly the precise moment when our role ends, but it's not our job through troops to reconstruct Afghanistan...
...Northern Alliance thought they had cleared it of all Taliban resistance. It has sent a chill through all the journalists here, as well as the Afghan drivers, interpreters, military commanders and officials we have been working with. Below is an account of what happened, as best we can reconstruct it from the journalists who survived and the Afghan soldiers who were with them...
...photograph of the runners gathering on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge at the start of the event showed many gazing to the left, as if to reconstruct the changed landscape for themselves. Squinting, firefighter Tim McCauley observed, “It is heartbreaking not to see those towers.” McCauley wore the badge numbers of fellow firefighters on his headband. Others carried pictures, and still others wore T-shirts bearing the names of victims. Yet it was the runners without pictures, T-shirts and badges, those who were simply running for themselves, who intrigued me most. As they looked...
...Child moves west, her kitchen is heading south. Smithsonian curators will pack it up—every knife, every larding needle, every rolling pin—and then ship it 442 miles to the National Museum of American History and reconstruct it piece by piece...
...make the system work? First, we need cash, and second, we?re going to have to totally reconstruct our security infrastructure...