Word: construction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occupied condominiums, thus removing them from the rental market, or condominiums are being built and sold at high prices to realize a quick return on investment. Says Howard Ruby, chairman of R. & B. Development Co. in Los Angeles: "Rents are still too low." Daniel Packard, an executive with Mayer Construction Co., which last year built 40% of the apartments in Southern California, predicts that his company may go out of the apartment business by 1980. Says he: "It's now costing us $28,000 to construct a single apartment...
Havergal took over the 100-year-old Citizens' Theatre in 1969, and began immediately to construct a permanent company and an international reputation. "We're a state-subsidized theater in a large industrial city with very high unemployment, and yet for the last eight seasons we've had a marvelous rapport between the actors and the audience. There are 15 actors, all paid the same, all the same age--there's no attempt at having a juvenile, a leading man, an ingenue, or anything like that. All the plays we do have to fit that number; if there...
...groups bringing the suit, the Town of Brookline and the Brookline Citizens to Protect the Environment, allege that Harvard has continued to construct the diesel portion of the power plant in violation of the January 31 decision of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE), which disapproved the installation of diesels because of their projected emissions of nitrogen dioxide...
...tempting for young choreographers to hide behind the trappings of the art, because dance itself is so difficult to construct well. As "pure dance," only one of last weekend's offerings was wholly successful. Howard Fine's "Dream Journal," the opening work on the program, unfolded a beautifully organic pattern on the motif of the softly curving arc. Dancers tumbled their arms like water-wheels in the fall of the current, or turned on one leg, the others bent at right angles the way a feather spirals in a funnel of air. All the edges here had been washed smooth...
...Z.A.P.U. (Zimbabwe African People's Union) and Robert Mugabe of Z.A.N.U. (Zimbabwe African National Union). Meanwhile, the Nigerian joint communique failed to mention any progress achieved from Smith's internal settlement, which the Post called "more democratic, moderate and multiracial than any government the guerrillas might construct." To gain, in effect, revolutionary credentials, the President appeared to be holding Salisbury "to lofty moral and political standards, while often appearing to wink at the failings of the Popular Front...