Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...literary project with this many rules and games could easily become sterile and precious. Fortunately, Pavic's imagination is equal to the task. He peoples his history of the history of the Khazars with vampires, religious ascetics, devils, golems, star-crossed lovers and a Turkish pasha who makes love only to the dying. Exotic details or metaphors not only impart a flavor of strangeness to the book, but also send a reader scurrying back and forth through the pages, trying to remember where he has come across a hand with two thumbs, a grave shaped like a goat...
...system, the project of Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, would provide a department with an annual budget that is expected to cover the salaries of all junior and senior professors for the year. Each department is allocated a "steady-state" number of positions--computed by adding up the number of both junior and senior posts that departments had under the old system--that it is allowed to fill and is then given leeway to decide the exact balance between junior and senior faculty...
Then came the challenge of getting the plant built and operating within all the constraints imposed by licensing authorities. Buckley and his partners in the Williams River Electric Corp., founded for this project, decided to buy the turbine and generator set and control equipment from China, where they got the best price...
Between the problems of threading the regulatory maze and the mechanical difficulties, the project has been a cliffhanger for Buckley and Alexander Hadden, a co-investor whom Buckley credits with seeing the enterprise through. "Without his strength and determination," he says, "I don't know if I would have stuck with it." For Hadden it has been a matter of common sense. "It's crazy not to use this power that's freely available and does no harm to the environment...
...ship it to Moscow in pieces and have it assembled by imported American workers with security clearance. Estimated cost: $400 million. Ever optimistic, the Administration hopes to cut that total by dunning the Soviets for $29 million in damages for shoddy workmanship and delays on the initial project...