Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aware of Arafat's desperate need for a new approach, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd invited him to Riyadh in June. At that meeting, Fahd convinced Arafat of the need for the P.L.O. to build a new relationship with...
...hire professional publicists and jingle writers to puff up the old image and help sell it like so much soda pop. Provincial self-glorification is both nourished and exported in a growing number of slick regional and city magazines. Moreover, metropolises and counties now go to exorbitant lengths to build spectacular sports arenas, convention centers and cultural palaces, ostensibly to serve the public but also as a form of chest thumping. St. Louis has constructed an enormous and now familiar arch with no clear purpose other than to provide something for the town to brag about besides the Mississippi River...
Their chairmen, Senator William Proxmire and Representative Henry Reuss, both Wisconsin Democrats, opposed aid to Lockheed. "A terrible precedent," said Proxmire of the proposed Chrysler deal. Reuss expressed distaste for guaranteeing loans for Chrysler to build "gas guzzlers that nobody will...
...development of synthetic fuel. For a country boycotted by most of OPEC and without its own oil reserves, necessity has fired innovation. Sasol now provides less than 10% of the 240,000 bbl. a day of oil that South Africa requires, but the country is spending $6 billion to build two more Sasol plants, which are expected to meet about half of its needs by the early 1980s...
South Africa has contracted with Fluor Corp. of Irvine, Calif., to build the two additional, much larger plants...