Word: building
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...understood intuitively that people must have a challenge that takes them out of the despair that crowds every day. There must be a new frontier beckoning, promising some new hope. He even sees space as a way, in his words, "to render nuclear weapons obsolete." But his proposal to build and perhaps share satellite-based missile defense shields failed to produce the superpower cooperation he says he envisioned. Indeed, it provoked one of the deepest disputes between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
When the debate over whether to build a manned space station came to the Cabinet Room in late 1983, James Beggs, NASA administrator, heard argument after argument against the project. He studied Reagan's face throughout the meeting. Walking out the door, a colleague remarked gloomily, "I guess we lost that one." Replied Beggs: "No, we won it. I could tell from the President's eyes." Beggs was right. Reagan felt the challenge of the hat over the wall. And last week, at the memorial service for Challenger's crew, he proclaimed yet again his determination to build the manned...
...well worth it. Says City Manager J. Michael Casey: "We pay only 2% of our $750,000 fire-protection budget to protect an area that contains 15% of our population. It would cost the city up to $125,000 for the same coverage, and another $250,000 to build a new station in that area...
...just beyond the city limits of Elk Grove, Ill., used to rely upon the fire departments of neighboring Mount Prospect and Des Plaines. But in 1979 those two towns decided that their fire fighters could no longer cover that area, known as the Elk Grove Fire District. Rather than build a department from scratch, district officials decided to hire a company called American Emergency Services, based 15 miles away in Wheaton, to put out fires and provide paramedics. The district built its own fire station, but the firm supplies the personnel and equipment around the clock. Company Founder Gary Jensen...
...federal detention centers for illegal aliens in Texas and three facilities in Tennessee, including two juvenile facilities in Memphis, a workhouse near Chattanooga and a halfway house in Fayetteville. This week Tennessee legislators are expected to consider a proposal from C.C.A. to take over another work camp and to build and manage a new 512-bed medium-to-maximum- security prison...