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...with a swimming pool and a sea view. "As soon as I saw this building I fell in love with it. It has the 'it' value," says Anne. That process of constant upgrading has helped make Spain rich - and kept cranes along the Mediterranean coast operating at sometimes reckless speed. Now the trade is slowing down, and there are warning signs of decay. An alleged kickback scheme has led to high-level arrests this year in Marbella, Spain's jet-set and botox capital. Authorities in the Valencia region have been challenged by foreign owners and the European Commission over...
...OPEC hiked its prices fourfold and jolted the nation's oil and gas companies into searching for additional supplies. Jimmy Carter gave the developers a big assist in 1979 when he announced his intention to tap the region's energy supplies by setting up an Energy Mobilization Board to speed up the building of refineries, pipelines, coal mines and synthetic fuel plants. He also proposed an Energy Security Corporation to funnel public funds for further research on developing the synthetic fuel industry. Though Congress voted down the board last summer, it approved a $20 billion program of loans...
...still all about location, but these days the starting point for folks in the real estate game is increasingly online. Sellers can now click to see an estimate of what their home--or a neighbor's--is worth, while buyers can broaden and speed up searches with annotated listings and detailed digital maps. Whether you're in the market for a new place, marketing the one you're in or just daydreaming about a mansion on Martha's Vineyard, these online hot spots are worth a quick tour...
...page operator's voice, clearer than usual, would repeat "code blue, Six West" through the enormous hospital complex. The code team residents would drop everything - being in the middle of an operation the single exception - and run at full speed to the floor location. Chief residents had keys that could instantly hijack big elevators jammed full of people; younger residents galloped up or down the stairs...
...change that at once made Summers compelling and sowed the seeds for his downfall. Election cycles dictate the pace of activity in Washington D.C., and often it seemed as though Summers couldn’t leave that pace behind when he arrived in Cambridge. Initiatives were introduced at breakneck speed, stretching the University’s collective attention to its limits. This type of administrative ambition would normally be unwelcome at a decentralized academic institution, but Summers’ presidency provided two reasons why rapid change might work at the traditionally intractable Harvard. First, in 2001, rapid change was just...