Word: constructs
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During recent months, Kahn-Tineta has travelled 11,000 miles on a fund-raising tour. She has visited Alcatraz Indian Island, spoken on many reserves, and addressed Indian groups across the United States. She frequently confers with Iroquois ironworkers who construct skyscrapers in the U.S. but live on her reserve in Canada...
MOREOVER, the type of sewage plants that the Administration plans to construct is the type that fouls up the water with phosphates and nitrates. Meanwhile, the Administration, instead of fighting industrial polluters, gives them six months to prepare "plans" to lower pollution flow, even when one of the polluters, Jones and Laughlin Steel in Cleveland, continues to discharge cyanide, of all things, into the Cuyahoga River (which caught fire last spring). Yet the government refuses to raise the cost of polluting our rivers and streams...
...governmental money available, reformers stridently demand that several rivers be cleaned up. Anti-pollution campaigns are a luxury of an affluent society. So the money, instead of going directly into the hands of the poor and the minorities, hires anti-pollution industries, off spins of the polluters, to construct elaborate drainage and filtering systems. Naturally, everything is financed at taxpayers' expense...
...into a hockey factory. But he needed a place that condoned that kind of program, a place whose academic reputation would be strong enough to attract people who didn't just want three letters in hockey to show for four years at college. Cornell gave Harkness carte blanche to construct his awesome machines, admitted the Canadian imports he wanted, covered him when he went out of bounds (as in the McGuinn case), and sat back to enjoy the results-five Ivy championships, four ECAC titles, and two NCAA crowns...
...bill would also empower the state to construct housing-25 per cent of which would be low and moderate income-on large unused tracts throughout Massachusetts. It provides for extensive use of eminent domain to procure land for housing, and would allow bypassing of "restrictive" building codes and zoning ordinances...