Word: construction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...along the 180th meridian but put an eastward kink in it to keep the people of the far-flung islands of the Fijian archipelago on the same page of their day planners. Now Fijians are calling that good turn a bad one. Repudiating the date line as an artificial construct, they claim their country, which straddles the 180th line of longitude, will be the first to greet the year...
...petition sought to limit an inclusionary housing measure which allowed builders to increase the number of units they construct by 30 percent as long as half of those units were used to create affordable housing. La Tremouille said Anderson Petition supporters believed this measure encouraged the eviction of current tenants...
...medium. He turned out paintings, novels, plays, operas, ballets, film scripts, poems, TV commercials, recipes, roadside billboards, monogrammed handkerchiefs, rebuses, a surrealist comic strip titled Emil the Talking Bladder, and the gigantic, brightly colored mounds that he wittily called Alps--so massive that the plaster of Paris used to construct them had to be poured over four-story buildings, often trapping the hapless occupants inside...
After last season, in which match in and match out the fate of the team rested solely on the shoulders of Luis Sanchez '97--the eighth-best collegiate golfer in New England--Harvard was looking to construct a more balanced attack and move itself into the upper echelon of regional golf powers...
...women's group called the Proud Eagle Tribe, whose members are unaffiliated with the College, claims responsibility for the bombing, but police are unable to make any arrests. Police believe that other conspirators are involved in the bombing because the bomb is too sophisticated a device for women to construct, according to investigating Cambridge Police Sergeant James A. Roscoe...