Word: dams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 engineering extravaganzas, Bechtel's master builders have helped to design and construct everything from the Hoover Dam and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to the trans-Alaska pipeline and the Washington metro subway system...
Shultz resigned as Treasury Secretary in 1974 to join Bechtel, one of the world's largest construction and engineering conglomerates. He became president the following year. Among its projects: the Hoover Dam, the Washington and San Francisco subway systems, 84 nuclear power plants, and the $20 billion Jubail Project, which is creating a new industrial metropolis in the sands of Saudi Arabia. Among his other duties, Shultz acts as a kind of secretary of state of the privately held, San Francisco-based company under Chairman Stephen Bechtel. His tasks as president of the group include coordinating international projects, articulating...
Monday After the Miracle will be performed in many places with many casts, but it is doubtful if the miracle workers at Spoleto will be outperformed. Jane Alexander contains emotions like a dam, and as the tide of feeling rises and crests the dam breaks, the playgoer is flooded with her unleashed passion...
...long ago as 1830, a czarist surveyor named Alexander Shrenk suggested a way of easing this imbalance by diverting the northerly-flowing Pechora River into the Volga, the great river that sustains much of southern Russia. But even in the 1930s, the Stalinist heyday of dam building and hydroelectric construction, the scheme was considered no more than a mammoth pipedream...
...first time, Queen Elizabeth referred in public to the Falklands fighting as she opened the Kielder Dam in Northumberland. Her voice filled with emotion as she said, "Our thoughts today are with those who are in the South Atlantic and our prayers are for their success and a safe return to their homes and loved ones. But ordinary life must go on." In Gloucestershire, Prince Charles was asked about Prince Andrew, second in line to the throne and a Sea King pilot aboard the Invincible. Prince Charles replied: "He's all right?just flying very busily. I don't think...