Word: projects
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When it's all said and done, Soldiers Field Park will have 480 apartments, a parking garage, a small grocery store, study areas, plazas and playgrounds, all for the exclusive use of what the Real Estate Office calls Harvard Affiliates. It's the University's most ambitious building project in some time--by contrast, Pusey Library cost $8 million--and it's supposed to fill the housing needs of faculty, staff and graduate students...
Recent outbreaks of racial violence in Boston will not affect the activities of the Roxbury-Harvard School project, Barbara J. Galvin, assistant director of the project, said yesterday...
...installation. In the planning stage since 1962, the plant would have exploited the vast deposits of low-sulfur coal in southern Utah and, when fully operational, generated 3 million kilowatts for customers in Arizona and Southern California-enough power to meet the needs of some 3 million people. The project's demise is also a blow to the economy of Utah, which had envisioned the creation near the plant of a town of up to 15,000, additional payrolls of $100 million and tax revenues of $28 million...
Michael McCloskey, executive director of the Sierra Club, was elated by the consortium's defeat. Said he: "Kaiparowits was a project at the wrong time and in the wrong place." Ironically, however, the Kaiparowits decision may work against environmentalists on another front. Deprived of coal power to meet growing energy demands, Southern California Edison, the largest member of the consortium, can now argue more convincingly for an alternative also opposed by the Sierra Club: more nuclear power plants...
...channel, but this spring's unusually high water levels could not be contained. Construction of a dam that could help hold back flood waters has been delayed by government red tape and is opposed by environmentalists and by farmers whose land might be flooded. Even if the project were to be approved, residents of Minot are likely to spend several more years warily watching the water. The earliest the dam could be completed...