Word: reconstruction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taken too seriously, especially since in this specific play, she is poking fun at the conventions of the murder mystery genre, including her own work. At one point, for instance, she has Detective Sergeant Trotter--himself an insane parody of crime-fighting zeal--ask the other characters to reconstruct the crime. "Oh, that old chestnut," Mr. Paravicini sneers...
When a child's fingertip is sliced off or smashed in a car door, most doctors sew up the wound or attempt to reconstruct the digit. But the best treatment for such injuries may be none at all. Writing in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Dr. Cynthia Illingworth of the Children's Hospital in Sheffield, England, reports that until the child is age eleven or so, a fingertip that is not damaged below the first joint will often regenerate spontaneously if left alone. Thus instead of suturing up smashed or amputated fingertips, Dr. Illingworth and her colleagues merely...
...most realistic approach to a solution of New York City's financial crisis [June 23] would be for the city administration to declare war on the U.S. -and lose. Washington could then pour millions of dollars into the city to reconstruct it. Vive "the mouse that roared...
Watson says the Athletic Department has not acted in bad faith in this matter. He says he originally thought there was a fair chance the Bubble could be reconstructed. But it later became clear to him that money could not be raised to reconstruct the temporary Bubble facility especially since the Department plans to construct a permanent indoor track facility within the next few years...
...Cambridge City Council last night approved a $20.6 million loan order to renovate and reconstruct portions of Rindge Technical and Cambridge and Latin High Schools...