Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hsiao's project attempts to determine the amount of work involved in everything doctors do--from checkups to brain surgery--so they can be paid what their services are worth...
...project attempts to set the relative value of different medical chores by taking into account the time involved, the practice costs, the specialized training needed and the stress of the work as well as the amount of thinking, judgment and technical skill required...
...familiar whir was pierced by a sharp, high-pitched beep. Each time she tried to call a file to the screen, the warning DISK ERROR flashed instead. It was as if the contents of her floppy disk had vanished. "I got that sinking feeling," recalls Joselow. "Every writing project of mine was on that disk...
Botha also pledged South Africa's help in restarting Mozambique's giant Cahora Bassa hydroelectric-power dam project, whose transmission lines have been repeatedly sabotaged by the Renamo insurgents since the facility was built in 1975. That promise showed both neighborliness and self-interest, since the dam's chief customer will be South Africa. Altogether, the encounter may have reflected a new willingness on the part of Pretoria to pursue conciliatory policies toward its black neighbors abroad while continuing to crack down on opponents of apartheid at home...
...islands, which once covered several square miles, are eroding at an alarming rate. To keep them from vanishing, a fleet of 17 ships and 200 workers have spent five months building concentric rings of 9,000 steel blocks and pouring concrete around the two rocky specks. The project will take three years to complete and will cost $224 million...