Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...civilian projects have no recourse, except to Iranian courts. For example, Brown & Root, the Texas-based construction company, whose $1.2 billion contract to build a naval base was canceled, has made little progress in persuading the Iranians to settle on termination damages. Fluor had completed 95% of a refinery near Isfahan before the revolution made further work too hazardous and is insisting upon back payments of nearly $100 million before it will finish the project...
...raised his rifle, and Stewart dropped to his knees. The guardsman motioned to him to lie down and kicked him sharply in the side. Then the soldier stepped back a few paces and calmly took aim, and shot the correspondent behind the right ear, killing him. Out of sight near by, Interpreter Juan Francisco Espinoza was also murdered. The grisly episode was filmed from the back of the van by ABC Soundman Jim Cefalo and Cameraman Jack Clark, who were not molested...
...They had a place in the Hotel Commander. That would be all right in the winter when we rely on our steady customers, but no-one shops near there in the summer," Donovan said, adding that the higher rents in most of the locations offered by the University would force her to sell an interest in the business...
Sullivan also charged that the agreement with the parcel 1B developers, combined with the recent University purchases along Mass Ave, indicate that Harvard plans to move the business center of the Square to the Southwest, near Brattle Square, so the Mass Ave properties could be used as classrooms...
Chez Jean, on Shepard St. off Mass Ave near the Radcliffe Quad, serves reasonably priced well-prepared, if somewhat undistinguished French country-style food...