Word: building
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...providing Moscow with the military technology used to subjugate the Soviet Union's neighbors and threaten American national security. The Ford Motor Company constructed an automobile plant at Gorkii which produces motors for the T-72 tank, the workhouse of the Soviet army in Afghanistan. Swindell-Dressler helped build the Kama River Truck plant which also produces vehicles used by the Red Army in Afghanistan. The Bryant Chucking Grinder Company of Vermont sold the Kremlin the ball bearings without which the construction of the SS-20 missile would have been impossible. J. Fred Bucy, president of Texas Instruments, itself...
When the Archdiocese of Boston announced that it would accept bids later this year from real estate developers seeking to build on what is now a parking lot for St. Paul's Church, people started thinking. Some thought it would be a good idea to build a fancy hotel or luxury condominiums on the DeWolfe St. site. Others thought the property would be a suitable site for Harvard graduate student housing...
Still others thought it would make sense to build an experimental community project on the property, sandwiched between Leverett and Quincy Houses, that could unite people of differing backgrounds and diverse incomes under one roof...
While such a project would be expensive to build and costly to operate, professional realtors say it undoubtedly would not be a moneymaker. Housing for transients and low-income families cannot compete with the posh condos and fancy boutiques which pay Harvard Square's top price of $60 per sq. ft. in rental fees...
...Kiely is optimistic that her groupcan show the city, the University and theArchdiocese the benefits each can receive byhelping to build her project. But most important,she says, are the benefits that will be derived bylower-income families who are in dire need ofassistance. "We need to stop this trendsomewhere," she says, nothing the proliferation ofconstruction in Harvard Square catering toupper-income clientele. "If everything is given tocondominiums, the result is more ghettos...