Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Canaday's contractors, who faced a mid-September deadline, took barely 14 months to construct the complex. Harold L. Goyette, director of the University Planning Office, said yesterday that Canaday was built on a "fast track system...
...President Juan Perón granted Cuba $1.2 billion in credits to buy Argentine products, such as road-building equipment, mining machinery, textiles and household appliances. In July, at a trade fair outside Havana the Argentines sold the Cubans an estimated $100 million in goods and agreed to help construct and equip 300 enterprises in Cuba...
Smith, 38, is an associate professor of English at the University of New Hampshire and the father of four daughters. His large and eccentric melodrama is marked by lavish skill at doing what novelists always need to do-write scenes, weave narrative threads, hatch and construct characters, see and smell and feel and describe. Good sentence piles upon good sentence until the novel sags and cracks. What it sorely needs is a blue pencil and an artistic point of view...
...accord to exchange information on housing, with particular concern for finding ways to construct earthquake-resistant buildings and structures that can withstand extreme cold and heat...
...French have promised to sell the Shah five complete nuclear power plants (price: about $1.2 billion). The French also agreed to construct a subway in Teheran costing at least $600 million, a liquefied natural gas plant ($600 million), and a steel plant. They will construct twelve large tankers and help with a large-bore gas pipe line ($1.7 billion) and supply sophisticated military equipment. In return, the Shah has agreed to deposit $1 billion in the French central bank as an advance payment and increase Iran's shipments of oil to France. The advance payment will help the French...