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...missiles, are to begin replacing the 34 aging Polaris and Poseidon subs that now carry the nation's sea-based nuclear warheads. Started in 1971, the Trident program has been racked by stunning cost overruns, delays and an angry feud involving the Navy and the sub's builder, the Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corp. By now the first Trident, the U.S.S. Ohio, should have logged two years with the Navy's Pacific Fleet. Instead, the state-of-the-art leviathan sits, 40% over the original budget and still not quite finished, in its builder...
...after repeated postponements by its builder, some Navy hands are skeptical about getting the Ohio before 1982. Says Republican Congressman David Emery of Maine, an engineer and member of the Armed Services Committee: "The Navy suspects that Electric Boat's information is not quite accurate. Neither side trusts the other." Admiral Hyman Rickover, 81, irascible founder of the nuclear Navy, is especially mistrustful. "They don't care if they manufacture horse turds or ships," Rickover snarled at a May hearing of a House subcommittee on defense. "I wouldn't give those so-and-sos any more contracts...
This arcane form of prayer has been little known in the New World. But now, after a 38-year delay, a dozen hand-picked local apprentices under the direction of an English master builder are hard at work trying to finish Manhattan's Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. They are building a gallery and two towers above the western facade, appropriately named for Sts. Peter and Paul...
...charge is James Robert Bambridge, 53. He earned his rank of master builder by finishing the Anglican cathedral in Liverpool, an effort that took ten years, from 1967 to 1977. Before that, Bambridge was called in to restore the Houses of Parliament after World...
Developers do not like land leasing since it ties up their capital longer in a housing project, but they are offering the option because the housing market is currently in such sad shape. Says Lynn Krause, a builder in Joliet, Ill.: "I'd rather have people buy on a leased-land basis .than not at all." Part of the reason business is sluggish is that buyers are rebelling at the high price of a plot of land. Says Otto J. Paparazzo, a builder in Woodbury, Conn.: "Land is becoming so difficult to zone and improve that...