Word: siting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barley and Beowulf at site of 6,000-year-old Scots building...
...submerged pilings last month. Then water under the pilings was drained, and Brazil's Munguba district, which before Ludwig was little more than a swatch of forest, got a new industrial enterprise. Why was the plant towed halfway round the globe instead of being built on the site? Says an I.H.I, spokesman: "It would have taken far more time to build so sophisticated a project there, with inadequate roads and cargo-handling facilities...
When nine inches of rain pounded New Orleans in one day early last month, the downpour left behind containers and pools of stagnating water that were perfect breeding grounds for mosquitoes. That was a bonus for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which had already picked New Orleans as the site for the first extensive test of mosquito control not by chemical or hormonal means but by another kind of mosquito...
...South House dining hall was delayed through the fall, leaving Quad residents to deal with the music of pneumatic drills in the early morning hours. Buildings and Grounds officials said the construction could not proceed any faster because their supply of bricks had been diverted to the nearby construction site of the new Kennedy School of Government...
Harvard's real estate business has a dual nature. The University tries to balance "landbanking" with its efforts to earn revenue, or at least break even, from the rest of its holdings. When Harvard landbanks, it buys property with an eye to razing it, creating a site for construction of new University facilities. Such property is usually permitted to run down, because there's no sense in paying steep maintenance costs if the building will eventually be torn down. Landbanking can potentially turn an owner into a slumlord; the building is only secondary to the property value...