Word: projectã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2001-2001
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Knafel’s name was taken off Harvard’s planned Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) a year ago, even after he donated another $11 million, when University officials found that the project??€™s budget had more than tripled and realized they needed to raise millions more...
...project??€™s original donor, Tiedemann says the prominence of Knafel’s name has stayed roughly the same...
...urgent imperative to think on the scale of Boston’s Big Dig: population growth. In 1940, around the time of the great construction boom of the Roosevelt era, the U.S. population was 132 million, according to the Census Bureau. In 1956, when the last big infrastructure project??€”the Interstate Highway System—was proposed, the population was 168 million. Today, there are 285 million Americans, twice as many as our infrastructure was built to handle...
...University’s ownership of MATEP was controversial at the time, particularly because the University severely overspent the project??€™s budget in paying $350 million to build the plant. The University only received $147 million when it sold the plant to the corporate predecessor of NSTAR...
...Central Administration estimated that at least $500 million would be needed for the project??€”a sum that is far too large to be sustained by its current budget. In an unprecedented step, the central administration will tax the endowments of Harvard’s nine schools directly, taking one half of one percent of each school’s endowment over the next five years to prepare the site...