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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over a period of four years, Barbouti spent two or three days a month in Libya, designing and supervising construction of the "technology center." As prime contractor and chief procurement agent, he traveled the globe recruiting expertise and labor. For Rabta he provided Japanese-designed desalinization and electrical equipment, as well as plastic molding and precision machining plants, a foundry from a Danish firm, a metal-working plant, a power station, a water-treatment facility, a maintenance workshop and three warehouses. He had plenty of money to spend; one Rabta contract, he boasted to a friend, was worth nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemical Weapons The Mysterious | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

More than 15 cents of each auto-insurance dollar is spent signing people up. (And lots of people don't sign up, pushing onto the rest of us the cost of any damage they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fill 'Er Up with No-Fault, Please | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

...Once she decides she wants to do something," Joseph says, "she works on it until she does it well. That's true for track, her studies and her relationships. Anyone who's spent some time with her knows she's going to go a long...

Author: By Angela M. Payne, | Title: Rainey Is Thinclads' Renaissance Woman | 2/24/1989 | See Source »

HUCTW organizers say that they have spent the past 17 years putting this philosophy of communication into action--organizing one-to-one, meeting with support staff for coffee breaks and lunch breaks, preferring personal contact to the massmailing strategies of other unions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gilligan Says Union Is Model Of Women's Different Voice | 2/22/1989 | See Source »

...back to his home-land, de Sousa Mendes and his family saw hundreds of refugees in front of the Portuguese consulate in Bayonne. De Sousa Mendes spent another day writing visas there before returning to Lisbon...

Author: By Kirsten L. Parkinson, | Title: City Remembers Portuguese Wallenberg | 2/21/1989 | See Source »

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