Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Northrop B-2, which is now expected to cost $530 million per plane, making it the most expensive weapons system in history. Eliminating the plane would create huge savings, but the effect would be felt across the U.S., as 126 contractors in 46 states have a stake in the project...
...debt, drug and trade policies in place and that all the decisions regarding Mexico would be made rationally and coherently, that Mexico would have somebody to deal with in the U.S. who is both in charge and thoroughly knowledgeable on the subject. There is a tendency in Mexico to project its own centralized, omnipotent presidency onto the U.S. side, where things do not work that...
When Isaac Abraham, 38, was growing up in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N.Y., it was populated mainly by ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jews. But by the 1970s, Williamsburg had experienced a large influx of blacks and Hispanics. Abraham now lives in a subsidized housing project where 49% of the tenants are white and 51% black or Hispanic, and race relations are often strained...
...When we got in ((the housing project)), there was a struggle to survive. It was the late 1970s, and the vibrations from both groups was very hostile, very, very hostile. There was almost every day a major crime -- people getting mugged, robbed, chains snatched, children beaten. And not people of both groups: the victims were always somebody out of the 49%. A kid who was sent down to the grocery, an adult would escort him. Forget the playground. Only one kind of people used that, and that was the people who created the nuisance. My wife was mugged...
...federal appropriation, the bourgeois house and palisade were meticulously rebuilt. "It's a shining example of a government agency and the private sector working together," says Edward Hagan, a retired physician from nearby Williston who heads the private group that has raised $500,000 of its own for the project. "Now we have an authentic treasure to show...