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More than Yankee craftsmanship is involved in BIW's success. The yard is the only one in the U.S. that combines modular construction with extensive "pre-outfitting." That means that whole sections of ships are built as near-complete units, fitted with piping and electrical equipment. Then, with a giant crane, the sections are joined to make the vessel. The system, now used by the Swedes and Japanese, is faster and less expensive than the conventional one of building entire hulls first, then stuffing them with their innards...
...Terwilliger School used to lie across the street from pasture land. Times change. Now grazing cows have been replaced by a Burger King. Mrs. Shaak's Life and Death classroom at first looks like just another concrete-and-glass modular unit of 1970s education. Scrawled student papers cover the walls, but they are not quite the usual exercises. On a sort of bulletin board the children have posted their own epitaphs inside crudely drawn tombstones. Nicole Carpenter writes...
...abortion counseling and clinic services are listed. If she lives in the Chicago area, she will probably be directed to a clinic in the city's Magnificent Mile area. There, nestled among the posh Michigan Avenue stores, she will find a luxurious office filled with glass-and-chrome modular furniture. A receptionist tells her that for $150 to $250, payable in advance in cash or by Medicaid or credit cards, she can have an abortion. But what the typical Chicago-area young woman seeking an abortion is not told is that within the next few hours...
...owns pharmaceutical, tire-recapping, steel fabricating and drinking water-bottling plants. Together with an Italian company, it is dredging parts of the Suez Canal. In 1976 Redec's revenues were more than $1 billion. Apart from his banking interests, Pharaon owns a substantial share of International Systems, a modular-housing firm in Mobile, Ala., and is the largest shareholder in Sam P. Wallace Co., a Dallas-based mechanical contracting firm...
...arias and no story. Instead a cast of 27 moves through a series of pictorial events set to the instrumental and vocal music of Philip Glass. A leading composer of the trance school of American music, Glass, 38, suggests in his work both Indian ragas and Bach preludes. Brief modular melodies expand and contract with soothing tidal regularity...