Word: projects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert J. Haggerty, Lee Professor of Public Health, said yesterday he is coordinating the joint project by Harvard Medical School, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and the Massachusetts Mental Health Center...
...multi-million dollar project--largest in Swiss history--is being financed by a Swiss conglomeration but built by foreign migrant workers. Although pay scales are adequate, no Swiss laborers could be found for the rigorous work, hence Turkish, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Algerian workers were brought in for the mammoth construction job. All supplies must be flown in by chopper...
...reporters refuse to discuss their activities publicly. Privately they complain of being snubbed by some Arizona journalists, harassed by crank calls and pressured by their editors to finish early and come home. No matter. The reporters say they have already dug up enough new information to turn the project from vindication of a slain colleague into a valuable story in its own right. "We've learned that heroin dealers in Arizona are selling guns to Mexican guerrillas in exchange for dope," reports one member. Says another: "It's not just Arizona. We've followed leads into...
...Some are buried under ice-covered river crossings, and they will have to be dug up and, if necessary, rewelded before the salmon return next spring. That chore, wryly says one Alyeska technician, promises to be "another wildly interesting experiment in arctic engineering." It could add to the project's cost, which has already soared from an early estimate of $900 million in the late 1960s to $7.7 billion today. Some officials reckon that the hassle over the welds will help push the final bill to $8.4 billion...
Built last spring, this housing project in Milan, Italy, was originally set up for private families who could afford to pay the rents in this rather well-to-do part of the city. But just before construction of the block of apartments was completed, the Italian Communist Party moved 1500 homeless people from as far south as Calabria and Sicily into the building...