Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...building behind his house that serves both as a workplace and library and as a typesetting and proofreading center, he has produced more than 5,000 printed pages in Russian of an epic called The Red Wheel. Using the techniques of fiction but based on exhaustive historical research, this project aims at nothing less than a vast overview of the events leading up to and culminating in the Russian Revolution...
...NASA is poised to make a similar mistake with its next major project, the $32 billion Freedom space station, scheduled to go into full operation in the late 1990s. Like the shuttle, it is being presented as a widely versatile project that will provide for the needs of scientists, engineers and space explorers. But without a focused, long-range program, those needs are not clear...
...cost of such a multi-step project would be large -- at least $5 billion a year and maybe considerably more. But unlike the $35 billion spent on the shuttle program, the expenditure would produce a return not just in prestige and technological leadership but also in the establishment of bases and % stations that can be used for future space projects. In order to ease the costs, the U.S. should encourage as much participation as possible by foreign governments. The Soviets, Europeans and Japanese all have active space programs, and duplication of efforts will increasingly be seen as an unnecessary waste...
...least one reporter picked up the scent early on. In December 1986 Joan Jacobson, a housing reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun, received a tip: Rhode Island developer Judith Siegel was throwing James Watt's name around HUD offices in Baltimore in connection with a low-income-housing rehabilitation project that Siegel wanted to develop in Essex, Md. Like any good reporter, Jacobson started asking questions. Why would the former Interior Secretary, now a Wyoming-based businessman and a professed enemy of Big Government, be involved in such a project? Jacobson started combing every public file on the 312-unit...
...turned out, Jacobson's source was right. Watt had received a $300,000 consulting fee from Siegel for making eight telephone calls and holding a 30- minute meeting with HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce to ease the way for the project. Siegel claims she does not recall talking with Jacobson in 1987. "You think I'm going to risk five, six or seven hundred thousand dollars talking to somebody on the Baltimore ((Evening)) Sun?" asks the developer today. Local housing officials, curious about Watt's involvement, were cheering Jacobson along. "I wanted her to find the facts," says Maryland community-development...