Word: projects
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Some have criticized this month's announcement that the Kennedy School would administer a new research project funded by the CIA. They believe that the link between the University and America's intelligence gathering arm would somehow "legitimize" the CIA--whatever that means--and sully Harvard's reputation as a "liberal institution...
...heart, Wall Street and Broadcast News are comedies too, with high energy levels to match their milieus and enough acid wit to recall the sophisticated screwball comedies of the '30s. Wall Street Director Oliver Stone and Co- Author Stanley Weiser (Project X) get their manic mileage from the gaudy argot of today's power brokers, principally one Gordon Gekko, a black knight who proclaims that "greed is good, greed is right, greed works, greed will save the U.S.A." Listen to the art of the boss raider as he works the phones to spear a couple mil in two minutes flat...
...shuttle's return to service is still at least six months away, NASA officials last week managed to look beyond that crippling disaster and announced plans for two ambitious programs for the next decade. In 1989, the space agency declared, it will finally launch its long-delayed unmanned Galileo project to Jupiter, a 2.3 billion-mile mission that is expected to last eight years. NASA also awarded four contracts for the construction of the long-planned space station that will serve as the nation's first permanent outpost in space...
Despite the plethora of poorly designed and shabbily constructed buildings, there have been some intriguing additions. The most stunning development project in London, indeed in Western Europe, is the multibillion-dollar regeneration of the Docklands, the decayed wharf district along the River Thames in the City's east end. Today the government-sponsored project boasts attractive apartments and offices, and even an airport...
...design for the plan is nearly complete, and contractors soon will be invited to bid on the project, according to Associate Dean of the College Martha C. Gefter...