Word: constructed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California-based engineering and construction firm from which Secretary of State-designate George Shultz resigned as president two weeks ago is one of the true anomalies of American business, a globe-girdling behemoth that operates throughout the U.S. and 20 foreign countries, but a company so private and unobtrusive in its ways that most people have never even heard of it. Yet the privately owned and operated Bechtel Group Inc. of San Francisco (1981 billings: $11.4 billion) has probably done more to transform the landscape of America and the world than any other company of this century. Among their many...
Bechtel began life virtually as a one-man operation, when a young German rancher named Warren A. Bechtel decided in 1898 to hire himself out with his mules to help construct a railroad line through Indian territory. The company established its name nationally in 1931 by helping to lead the eight-company consortium that built the Hoover...
...graphics, which created the most imaginative of TRON's sets and props, were Los Angeles' Russell Leavitt and New York and props, were Los Angeles' Russell Leavitt and New York Reporter-Researcher Peter Ainslie. Says Ainslie: "It was only fitting that real computers were used to construct the environment inside the film's computer-and to do it better than any conventional graphics methods." Adds Leavitt: "While you know that a black box is producing what's on the screen-it's simply a machine-for a moment, you wonder...
...construct was to see. He was never interested in conventional beauty. Sober, pinched, reflective, lined and melancholy, his portraits remind us of that. But how many American artists said more about the sense of being in the world? Eakins was that extreme rarity, an artist who refused to tell a lie even in the service of his own imagination. -By Robert Hughes
...opens his bedroom window by pulling the lower pane upward. There are no such windows in the Soviet Union, so Govorukhin studied 19th century American architecture and had his carpenters build an American-style window. Mississippi steamboats were also in short supply, so Govorukhin instructed his carpenters to construct a replica, atop a barge, replete with lacy white railings, two smoking black chimneys and an American flag flapping at the stern...