Word: construction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real reason is to get us together and construct fake memories of the great time we've had here so we'll feel obligated to give Harvard our money. First in installments, then the balance when we kick. Unfortunately, the first event was such a miserable failure, I figure the Alumni/Alumnae Associations owe me about $20 at this point. Make it out to cash, please. It's for a good cause...
...plans for the site include 80 rental units for Harvard affiliates, 10 to 12 units of low-cost housing and a child care center, according to The Harvard Gazette. The Boston firm of Goody, Clancy, and Associates has prepared the plans for the two additional buildings Harvard will construct, The Gazette reported...
...Jaruzelski government and the Solidarity-led opposition agreed to hold elections for a second chamber of parliament, a revived senate that would include non-Communist candidates. Party leader Wojciech Jaruzelski, who presided over the crackdown outlawing Solidarity in 1981, was uncharacteristically exuberant: "Significant progress is being made to construct parliamentary democracy in Poland." In a church basement across the city, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa told his supporters that Poland was entering a decisive stage "we hope will lead to democracy and freedom...
Some Europeans fear the rate of change in the East may outpace their ability to construct coherent policies in response. Says a senior adviser to French President Francois Mitterrand: "Eastern Europe could become a region of instability and risk." But others scent something better: the possible end to the cold war, on which virtually all East-West security planning is based. "This is the greatest opportunity the West has had to influence this region since the division of Europe after World War II," said Mark Palmer, the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and a leading advocate of Western activism. "We simply...
Harvard has hired a contractor and is moving forward with plans to construct the new Busch-Reisinger museum building, the University official in charge of the project said yesterday...