Word: builder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...linguine, dresses in well-tailored designer clothes and still lives in Buttrio, the small village (pop. 2,200) in northeastern Italy where she was raised. But beneath that traditional exterior, Danieli, 43, is a lady who confounds expectations. As the chief executive of Danieli of Buttrio, a leading builder of steel mills and manufacturer of steelmaking equipment, she is a high-heeled boss in a hard-hat world--and a remarkably good boss at that. While much of the global steel industry has been depressed for almost a decade, Danieli has achieved phenomenal growth, earned record profits and built...
...Seabrook and Shoreham plants, arguing that what happened north of Kiev could just as easily happen there. "The accident at Chernobyl makes it clear," said Ellyn Weiss, general counsel of the Cambridge, Mass.-based Union of Concerned Schentists. "Nuclear power is inherently dangerous." Maurice Barbash is a builder who heads a Long Island citizens' group opposed to Shoreham. Last week he was more determined than ever to stop the project. Said he: "I don't see how they could license Shoreham right now. To do so would be madness...
...close range, though, the radiation-bearing plume could be deadly. The immediate danger was, of course, greatest for those nearest the disaster. Said Kerry Dance, president of GA Technologies, a San Diego reactor builder: "The people who are in trouble are those right at the site." Henry Wagner, a professor of radiation health sciences at Johns Hopkins, speculated that local residents risked exposure to extreme doses of radiation that could cause cerebral hemorrhaging, nausea, vomiting and death within hours...
...When the builders of the Society Hill development in Peekskill, N.Y., announced last month that they would soon be selling 91 new condos at prices ranging from $98,500 to $140,000, the response from local residents was immediate and intense. People with sleeping bags started lining up outside the development's office six days before the first applications were to be given out. Soon the crowd swelled to 200, and the police had to be called in when several people tried to skip to the head of the line. Says Society Hill Developer Ara Hovnanian, a major builder throughout...
...succeeded. After growling that there would be no point to a summit if the U.S. remained adamant on SDI, Gorbachev came anyway and acted amiable. Crows one Reagan adviser: "We gave up almost nothing at Geneva and the world did not come apart. That was an important confidence builder. Gorbachev began to appear less formidable, like his bark was worse than his bite...