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Even more ostentatious is Mohammad's residential compound, now under construction on a chunk of Miami property he bought for $4 million. A contractor on the unfinished Xanadu is suing the sheik for $275,000, and one of the sheik's builders says it will be "the most expensive piece of crap ever put on this earth." It is to include a bowling alley, an aviary, computer-controlled fountains, five waterfalls, two swimming pools, moving sidewalks, a bomb shelter and a mosque...
Despite many initial doubts, the wom en almost universally praised the commit tee after the first meeting. Says Mary Farrar, 41, president and founder of Systems Erectors, a structural steel contractor in Kansas City: "I had no women professional associations whatsoever. I simply didn't know there were other women out there at my level with the same managerial problems." Said Diane John son, 48, executive vice president of Houston's Central Pipe & Supply Co. (1981 sales: $82 million): "Most of us are not joiners. But we decided to risk it." Added Lane Nemeth, 35, president of Discovery...
Columbia should be ready for its fourth and last test flight in late June. NASA Chief James Beggs is so pleased with the shuttle's progress that he is shopping around for a private contractor to run the ships. So far he has had no takers. Many companies have booked space aboard future shuttle flights in order to launch satellites, but few believe that private enterprise could now operate the shuttle profitably without heavy Government subsidies. Industry has also displayed considerable caution about using the shuttle for testing such schemes as making drugs or mixing alloys in zero...
...Wyatt, vice-president for administration, said he was optimistic about the pace of reconstruction. "The contractor is confident that he can finish his work on schedule," he added...
American drilling activity has already leveled off in the Williston Basin of Montana and the Dakotas and the Austin Chalk of central south Texas. Chesley Pruett, a drilling contractor operating out of El Dorado, Ark., said recently, "Last year at this time I had my rigs booked up six months in advance. Now the work is coming in well by well...