Word: builder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry suffers through its worst slump in 15 years, Dallas-based Fox & Jacobs has sold some 600 cottage homes in Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston since July. Reason: the houses are going for as little as $34,500. Fox & Jacobs, which uses assembly-line methods, has become a master builder of low-priced homes...
Rickover is legendary for his tart, occasionally profane testimony on Capitol Hill, and critics argue that someone younger and less irascible should serve as the Navy's chief nuclear officer. He has had rancorous relations with General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division, the builder of the Tridents, charging the manufacturer with needless delays and outrageous cost overruns (now $420 million over the original estimate of $780 million in 1974). Says one Pentagon source: "He's gone through several Secretaries of the Navy and several Secretaries of Defense and has ignored most of them...
...changing cloud patterns and lifted its veil with a radar beacon, mapping 93% of Venus' shrouded surface. Though the planet has continent-size land masses topped by a mountain a mile higher than Everest, it does not seem to be rent by the earth's major mountain builder: continental drift. Rather, the key tectonic process appears to be volcanism, accompanied by lightning, flows of lava and an otherworldly version of earthquakes...
...Tasco Inc., a Shell Rock, Iowa, builder of hog barns, grew rapidly during the 1970s and saw its employment rolls swell...
...mean electricity, the heating system and a supply of fresh water. But when middle-income New Yorkers next month begin moving into a newly completed 52-unit condominium at 260 West Broadway in Manhattan's Tribeca district, they will find not just sinks, tubs and electrical outlets, but builder-installed computer terminals. The inconspicuous machines, which look like small television sets with a keyboard, are hooked up to a McLean, Va., firm that styles itself an "information utility." Its daunting name: the Source...