Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Student distaste--expressed in a meeting last week--for orange grass and impatience to restore the Quad lawn combined to send the "landscape architecture" project back to the drawing boards. Instead, contractors will start laying down normal green sod today and the lawn will be available for use within a week, said project manager Roger J. Cayer...
Funding for the letters and petitions comes from the Harvard Hillel, Jewish Students Project, Inc. of Boston, and private donations, organizers said...
Wright also earned more than $30,000 in 1986 from an investment partnership with George Mallick, another longtime supporter. Mallick was one of the principals in a project to redevelop Fort Worth's stockyards that could have received a large chunk of $30 million in federal appropriations earmarked for the area by Wright. One of Mallick's businesses paid Wright's wife Betty a $1,500 monthly consultant's fee for at least three years, and the Wrights regularly stay in a Mallick-owned apartment in Fort Worth. Wright insists his support for the project was justified. "My interest...
Sagdeyev was already embarked on another project, one that could have ended his career. Called Vega, the mission was designed to approach and study Halley's comet. Sagdeyev chose to build Vega around the proven, off-the-shelf technology of the Venera probes. But he wanted the scientific instruments to be custom designed, even though the expertise was not available within the U.S.S.R. So he recruited scientists from nine countries, including the U.S., to join the project. That was unheard-of in security-conscious Soviet space circles. Recalls Sagdeyev: "Sometimes my opponents, in order to take over, were almost ready...
...original plans for the restoration project, proposed by Radcliffe landscapers last year, included a surrounding garden, but such ideas had to be reduced for economic and aesthetic reasons...