Word: construction
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...part of the new agreement, the University has said it will construct 288 new units of graduate student housing on the Allston campus by the fall of 2002 to free up housing in Boston--and in Harvard-owned apartments--and to bring students closer to campus. This development will house 554 students and will put 75 percent of Business School students' residences on campus...
...days later, though, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Robert H. Ebert acknowledged their plans to construct a new building which would require the eviction of the tenants of 182 homes...
With the influence of the consulting apparatus, it's not hard to see how the modern political machine can make idealism chimerical--a sad social construct. We all know this: For all the retail politics, modern campaigns are about 1980s buzzwords like organization and strategy--and 1990s buzzwords like synergy and Internet...
Most developing countries aggressively sell ecotourism, while few foreign-aid programs are complete without an ecotourism element. Two years ago, Brazil unveiled a $200 million program to develop ecotourism in the Amazon region. A project to build a visitors center, upgrade trails and construct canopy walkways has saved Ghana's Kakum rain forest from logging and other depredations. The park now employs 2,000 local people and attracts 40,000 tourists a year. Receipts from about 1,600 visitors each day are keeping afloat the Xcaret ecopark in Yucatan, Mexico--and also funding the 50 scientists who work there...
...Some of the bones have metal pieces sticking out of them, as if someone was trying to construct a skeleton," Mandryk said...