Word: builder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...facts in dispute, but you're dealing with French, American, Spanish, Liberian, West German, and Bermudian entities." The judge found that Amoco had been negligent "with respect to the design, operation, maintenance, repair and crew training" of the tanker. He also blamed the ship's Spanish builder, Astilleros Españoles, for the design and construction of the faulty steering gear...
...median cost of a new home now $79,500, up 7.7% from a year ago, an affordable starter house may turn out to be little larger than a roomy cabin. In Hudson, N.H., eager buyers have been plunking down $60,000 for two-bedroom town-house units that Builder John Stabile has packed into 1,050 sq. ft., or about half the size of a singles tennis court. On the outskirts of Southern California's San Fernando Valley, $90,000 can buy a Kaufman & Broad two-bedroom, 1,000-sq.-ft. single-family home. For the Los Angeles area...
...could say a lot about Newlove's "technique" or "craftsmanship"--the way he puts poems together--for he is indeed a master builder....his work is often a demonstration model of how it should be done. But that isn't my primary interest. I would rather talk about corners; what they are, what you do in them and how you get out of them. Because this seems to me what Newlove's poetry is obsessed with, and for him it's a life-and-death obsession...
Despite the open water between the shells the Harvard crews kept up their concentration through the non-contests. "It was a real confidence builder--not just the victory but the fact that we rowed well," said j.v. cox Mike Mollerus...
...attend the Mission Ridge Ski Academy in Washington. He concentrated on downhill when he began to tour in Europe and saw how downhillers were revered there. Off the road he divided his time between the houses of his father Wally, a computer systems analyst and sometime house-builder who lives in Van Nuys, Calif., and his mother D.B., who raced stock cars in high school and is now a contract administrator for an electronics firm near Portland, Ore. The portrait his parents give is of a bright boy who skipped two grades in school, was shy and defensive and, says...