Word: transition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South East Asian Nations, the standout is Singapore, which is expected to end the year with an 8.6% growth rate. Exports of garments and electrical machinery have been brisk, and the government has stimulated the construction industry through heavy spending on public housing and Singapore's new rapid transit system. Economist Narongchai forecast that growth will remain in the 8% range through...
That the physicist learned of his prize in transit was fitting. Known among his friends as "the Alitalia scientist," Rubbia, 50, frequently flies from CERN, located outside Geneva where he does his research, to Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., where he teaches physics. His relentless energy and aggressive pursuit of ideas are what led to his discovery of three critical subatomic particles, ending a 20-year hunt that involved hundreds of scientists...
...defendants stood accused of grand larceny, as well as 125 counts of falsifying business documents and eleven counts of filing phony papers with government agencies. The purpose and end result, according to an indictment handed up by a Bronx grand jury, was to defraud the New York City Transit Authority of some $8 million on a $ 186 million subway contract awarded to New Jersey's Schiavone Construction Co. in 1978. At the time, Donovan was executive vice president and one of two controlling stockholders in the firm. He is the first Cabinet member ever to be indicted while still...
...Schiavone, including its chairman, Ronald Schiavone, 59, were charged with grand larceny in this scheme. Together, Donovan and Schiavone own about 90% of the company's stock. Also charged with fraud were Masselli, 57, and Galiber, 59. The alleged "theft," in Merola's view, was from the Transit Authority and the Federal Government...
...subway project. One tactic, Merola claims, was for Jo-Pel to bill Schiavone more than $90,000 a month for "renting" tunnel-digging equipment that Donovan's company let Jo-Pel use free of charge. Schiavone officials passed these bogus rental bills along to the New York City Transit Authority, which then paid Schiavone. In all, Schiavone collected some $12 million for work it claimed that Jo-Pel had done; in fact, according to Merola, Jo-Pel's effort was worth only some $4 million...