Word: construction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crude measures of death rates and simple indices of complications mark only the first salvos in what will undoubtedly by a prolonged battle to construct, test, reconstruct and retest measures of the quality of the components of American health care. Some snake oil will be sold to those impatient for good methods of measurement, but, in the longer run, the serious efforts of health services researchers and managers are more likely than not to yield sound and credible measurement tools for the quality of care. Armed with those tools--but not without them--we may be able to defend...
...crafts council has managed to avoid this pitfall with a canny real estate deal. In 1982 a developer agreed to buy the former museum, a cramped brownstone on the present site, to construct the E.F. Hutton office tower. Instead of selling out and shopping for a new home, the council proposed that % it would exchange the land for 18,000 sq. ft. of permanent space in the new tower, 72 ft. of street frontage with a separate entrance, control over its own interior architecture and $750,000 in cash. "It's very unusual," says Craft Council Executive Director Norton Berman...
...three were cited for developing methods that have revealed the most basic mechanisms of chemical reactions. To construct theories of what happens when chemicals react, scientists, prior to the laureates' work, had only sketchy evidence: the chemical products and the amount of energy produced or consumed by the end of a multistep reaction. But these observations gave information only about the net effect on millions of molecules; the changes that occur to individual molecules at each step stayed a mystery...
...early hours of the morning, SASC members construct a 16-foot high Ivory Tower and seven black shanties in the front of University Hall to protest the University's intransigence on the divestment issue...
...remembered body. What anxiety was to Giacometti or sexual rage to Picasso, nurture and shelter were to Moore. His commitment to sculpture as an act of hollowing, modeling and smoothing the "body" of a single mass ran counter to the pattern of 20th century sculpture, which was to construct from disparate parts a shape that did not need to be felt with the hands, one in which sight preceded touch. (Who ever wanted to stroke a Gonzalez or a David Smith?) His impulse to preserve the traditional values of carving and casting went back to his Yorkshire childhood...