Word: projects
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...bank approved direct loans to foreign buyers for $2.1 billion in exports, up from $423 million in the equivalent period a year ago. Last week the bank announced its biggest deal yet: a $732 million credit for the Korea Electric Co. to buy two U.S. nuclear power stations. The project, which will ultimately cost $2.2 billion, will support 56,600 jobs at Westinghouse, Bechtel and more than 1,000 subcontractors and suppliers. The Administration has asked for-and Congress is expected to approve-an increase in Eximbank's lending authority from $25 billion to $40 billion over the next...
When Muldoon learned what his students were up to, he exclaimed, "My God, we've got another Watergate!" and promptly declared himself dictator. All but five of his 27 students had participated in the corruption. When asked afterward what they liked about the project, the students cited money dealing, counterfeiting and blackmail...
After eleven years as a missile engineer on the Minuteman test program at Cape Kennedy, Carl Eichhorn was ordered by his employer TRW to go to California to work on a new project. "It was go or else," he recalls. He refused...
...staged a running battle with residents of Cambridge's Observatory Hill neighborhood, the proposed site of a new Radcliffe gymnasium. The residents lobbied the City Council to change the zoning regulations on the area, in an attempt to halt the planned expansion. Radcliffe, meanwhile, pushed for completion of the project, as the residents' delaying tactics pushed projected costs up through the gym roof...
Poussaint has also written about civil rights organizations. He is a member of People United to Save Humanity, a group whose goals include helping minority youths in high school, and he is on the advisory board of the Council for Interracial Books and the Mental and Law Project...