Word: builder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Feigenbaum, vice president for engineering and quality programs for New Hampshire Yankee. Seabrook's builder, disputed DeMarco's suggestion...
When Howard Henry Baker arrived at the White House last March, he brought with him a reputation as the great conciliator. Moderates expected his skills as a consensus builder to work legislative magic, easing Ronald Reagan into the new realities of a Democratic Congress. Conservatives feared that his instincts as a pragmatist would blur the President's ideological vision...
...Nabila is not for ordinary billionaires. This gilded 282-ft. yacht marks its owner as reigning king of the big spenders. And who might that be now? Last week it was confirmed that the new skipper is Donald Trump, 41, the Manhattan skyscraper builder and casino czar. Trump paid nearly $30 million for the liner, which contains 15 suites, a disco, pool, helipad and 296 phones...
With more than 11,000 new and renovated homes, the amount of money skimmed off by the extremists is thought to add up to millions of dollars. "Wherever the terrorists have influence, you can be absolutely certain that builders or their workers are having to make a deal," says a senior police official. For a share of the contract price, the builder is guaranteed "security" for his project. If he fails to pay, his equipment may be damaged, his workers scared off the work site or his family threatened. Some of the more innovative extremist groups have founded legitimate security...
...area of Atlanta, luxury houses that start at $500,000 and run well over $1 million are sprouting in unprecedented numbers. Reason: the unusually long five-year-old economic expansion and the record-breaking stock market advance have rapidly swelled the ranks of the rich. Says Ray Gentile, a builder on Long Island's North Shore: "A shocking number of people have suddenly become wealthy, and they want to show the world. Their luxury home is the ultimate present to themselves...