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...Japanese and West German firms that rushed into the Chinese market in 1978 and 1979, at the outset of Peking's ambitious drive for industrial expansion. Japanese companies, including Toyo Engineering K.K. and Mitsui Petrochemicals Co. Ltd., have lost $640 million worth of contracts to build seven turnkey petrochemical plants in Nanjing, Shengli and Peking. Of its five contracts for similar plants, Lurgi Gesellschaften, a Frankfurt-based engineering combine, expects to lose at least three, worth $450 million...
...Jones says that GE sees Utah as "an important opportunity in the natural-resources industry." Some Wall Street analysts believe that the company may be particularly interested in Utah's uranium mining and processing operations. The merger with Utah would enhance GE's ability to sell profitable "turnkey" deals covering everything from the reactor to the atomic fuel to power-company customers...
That night the turnkey opened the peephole and offered me half a cup of water and a piece of bread-my first food or water since breakfast on Monday. Then back to more interrogation, which continued for a couple of hours. After that, I was dumped on the floor of my cell. I was still in my shorts, with no blanket, bed or pillows, just the bare concrete. I fell into an exhausted sleep, and was allowed to rest through the night...
...Turnkey project is the result of an overall community program at MIT to ease the housing problem in Cambridge," Walter L. Milne, special assistant on urban relations at MIT, said yesterday. "We built what we hope are damned good units that will give people a quality life...
Milne said that MIT "definitely took a loss on the Turnkey project." MIT plans are to generate activities that will give employment to Cambridge residents in addition to housing," he added...