Word: constructing
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...order to meet increasing demands for research facilities, Harvard Medical School unveils plans to construct a $250 to $300 million research complex in the Longwood Medical Area. Construction is scheduled to begin in late 2000 or early...
...Museum and steal more than 5,600 ancient Green and Roman coins valued at up to $5 million. 18 - Following protests from the City of Cambridge and environmental concerns, Harvard proposes an alternative location in Watertown for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library Complex. Initially, the University planned to construct the building along Boylston Street (now JFK Street...
...immensely difficult for undergraduate students to construct one-on-one relationships with a member of the Harvard faculty. We are obliged to fulfill eight Core Curriculum requirements, which banish undergraduate students to impersonal, anonymous lecture halls. Although even the most world-renowned Harvard professors are required to have open office hours, so that students may presumably interact with professors outside of the classroom setting, yet both students and Faculty need to make a greater effort so that office hours are more comfortable and ensure both convenient and meaningful Faculty-student interaction. Professors make little effort to mingle or interact with...
...ravaged by the AIDS epidemic, malaria and other tropical diseases, poor nutrition and unsafe water. "Healthy life expectancy in some African countries," said Murray, "is dropping back to levels we haven't seen in advanced countries since medieval times." These nations lack the facilities, the funds and organization to construct a society that can take care of its own. The United States, where the issue of wider health coverage makes frequent but often short-lived blips on the political radar (Bradley, Hillary before him), has the resources. For the present, though, it lacks the political will to spread them around...
...from a money-losing industrial conglomerate better known for toilet paper and tires into a $20 billion global telecom powerhouse, what sticks with you is his charming knack for understatement. "We've done pretty well," Ollila says, kicking back in his chair inside Nokia's Espoo headquarters, a modern construct of glass and steel towering over the Gulf of Finland six miles west of Helsinki. You'd think he was talking about his tennis game...