Word: constructionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the powerful highway lobby- composed of the automakers oil companies, construction firms, Teamsters and building unions-exertred its enormous muscle to persuade Government to build more and more roads- until the nation became almost totally dependent on the auto and truck. Until the gas crisis began to hit home...
It is time to return to respect for the laws of physics and concern for aesthetics in building design and construction.
And, as it now seems, his mission accomplished. When Khan returned to his homeland, only two commercial gas centrifuge plants existed-one in Capenhurst, Britain, and the other in Almelo. The blueprints for both factories are highly classified, since the uranium produced by a gas centrifuge can be used to...
Behind the officers--a few of the 500-plus who were bussed in for the occasion--stood the containment building which will enclose the nuclear core, that energy-and-radiation-producing network of fuel rods, uranium pellets and cooling pipes. The containment, looking out over Long Island Sound, its grey...
ITHAD BEGUN, Around the perimeter of the main construction site, but mostly from the east where the terrain was easier, groups of "CD people" carried ladders, ropes and blankets (for protection from the barbed wire). "They're everywhere!" a LILCO official reportedly said as he watched them arrive via closed...