Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immediate concern was that our space was inadequate to accommodate this event: Ms. Murray had spoken of an audience of 150 (or perhaps more), and the seating capacity of our lecture hall is 144. We are completing a major building project at the School, one which requires an electrical shutdown throughout Andover Hall. Only three holiday weekends have been available for us to accomplish this work (Columbus Day, Veterans' Day, and Thanksgiving), and the conference date of November 11 conflicted with one of a very few possible times for us to complete this essential job. In fact, a complete shutdown...
...work in Mallinckrodt began yesterday morning and will be completed today, said Henry Brogna, capital project manager for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He said the asbestos removal, done by a private contractor, would cost "less than ten thousand dollars...
...shelf clerks in a supermarket and try to make ends meet with second jobs as painters at a private airport. Hard-pressed as they are, in recent months they helped organize a soup kitchen for their hunger-crazed neighbors, lining up donations of food from local companies. The project fed 300 people a day, most of them children. Parents were too embarrassed to come and sent their children with pots to fill...
...VICTOR VOCAL SERIES. Maybe they weren't better in the old days, but these digitally remastered recordings make a strong case that the jet plane and overbooked schedules are enemies of vocal grace. The first issues in this new project include Marian Anderson, Leonard Warren, Rosa Ponselle, Tito Schipa and Jussi Bjoerling. The Warren disk is an oddity, recorded live on a 1958 tour of the Soviet Union, where the baritone's dark, sexy voice knocked 'em dead. Ponselle's sublime vocal poise lights great Verdi arias and ditties like When I Have Sung My Songs...
...which was treated like an unwanted appendage by the Reagan Administration, has led to a proportionate rise in the attention given to claims made by private consumer and environmental organizations that focus on food safety and risks to health. Dan Howell, the director of the Americans for Safe Food project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, says that groups like his are flourishing. "Our membership is double what it was a few years ago," says Howell. "New local organizations are emerging across the country. Consumers rely on consumers' groups as much as on the government...