Word: unbuilt
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...Pressure. Armstrong learned his engineering at Utah State ('36), sharpened it as a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation dam engineer from 1936 to 1953. Moving on to Egypt's controversial-and still unbuilt-Aswan High Dam project as a U.S. consultant, he showed plenty of diplomatic savvy in reconciling the divergent views of U.S. and Egyptian engineers during preliminary work. Later he took over as director of dams on the St. Lawrence Seaway project, another job that required low-pressure diplomacy to resolve the conflicting desires of the U.S. and Canada. Last year Armstrong took...
...Collateral. To build and operate the supertankers, the Argonauts devised a shrewd technique for raising the cash without putting up much money of their own. Niarchos persuaded the oil companies-which were then unwilling to tie up capital in shipping-to put his unbuilt tankers under long-term charter (up to seven years). Armed with charters that would pay for new tankers in less than half their 20-to 25-year working span, he then made firm contracts with shipyards and went to banks and insurance companies for construction loans, using the charters as collateral. With the loans guaranteed...
...fancy now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this 'second Rome' . . . This embryo capital, where fancy sees Squares in morasses, obelisks in trees; Which second-sighted seers e-v'n now adorn With shrines unbuilt and heroes yet unborn Though naught but woods and Jefferson they see, Where streets should run and sages ought...
...work only in unbuilt areas...
...before they ever came up in actuality. It advised the Navy, for instance, not to try to launch certain jet fighters from the deck of a pitching carrier. The computer proved that they were much too likely to go in the drink. It worked out the "hydrodynamic" behavior of unbuilt submarines. It predicted the speed at which the wings of new aircraft would begin to flutter dangerously...