Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eager state contestants paraded themselves before the judges and touted their unique qualifications. No, it was not the Miss America pageant. The competitors were vying for the right to house the world's most advanced subatomic particle accelerator, a $4.4 billion project that will bring thousands of jobs and considerable prestige to the state that wins. Last week a joint committee of 21 scientists winnowed down the original 25 contestants to eight finalists: Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas...
Energy Secretary John Herrington will announce the preferred site next summer. A major hurdle remains, however: following last week's elimination of 17 states, proponents fear that congressional enthusiasm for the project may collide with efforts to reduce the budget...
...senior project, Adams House film tutor Yule Caise '87 explored the reasons that lay behind such actions. What resulted was "Shoes", a film that won a Hoopes Prize last year and will be shown tomorrow throughout the Boston area on WGBH channel...
...artisans in a handful of villages in northern Russia have been turning out such delicately painted artifacts. The boxes have attracted collectors around the world. Art Director Rudolph Hoglund was reminded of the art form when he went to Moscow to find a Soviet artist for this week's project. Hoglund quickly decided that a lacquered likeness of the Soviet leader would be a novel but highly appropriate form for the cover portrait...
...landmark legislation to protect the lifeblood of Arizona's rapid economic growth: its scarce underground water. This came only after a dramatic charade in which Babbitt enlisted Cecil Andrus, then Secretary of the Interior. The two agreed that Andrus would threaten to cut funding for a major water project dear to powerful economic interests in Arizona unless the state managed its groundwater better. "I went home and called him an overreaching federal hypocrite," Babbitt recalls with a grin. Then, having immersed himself in the arcana of water management, Babbitt mediated eight months of talks among farmers, miners, developers, municipalities...