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Students are taught to do everything as cheaply as possible and to buy only what is necessary. The new builders learn to economize by making their own windows (one-third cheaper than the contractor's price) and by buying lumber direct from the mill (50% less than at a lumber yard). Heating, water and electricity bills can be trimmed by having large windows that face south to the winter sun, and by installing wood-burning stoves, hand pumps and compost toilets. Though conventional housing costs up to $40 per sq. ft., homes constructed along Shelter lines can be built...
...strike began after the B&M hired a non-union contractor to repair a boiler at the railroad's offices in North Billerica, Gloria Stone, a B&M spokesman, said yesterday...
...company would need some federal assistance by early next year, but last week's long awaited announcement of the company's $207 million second-quarter loss has compressed that timetable. A shutdown of the nation's tenth largest manufacturer (1978 sales: $13.6 billion) and sizable defense contractor ($625 million in 1978) would have far-reaching consequences. It would leave the U.S. auto industry basically in the hands of General Motors and Ford, throw 130,000 employees in seven states out of work, and affect about 400,000 people employed by Chrysler's suppliers and dealers...
...condition of the wall was first noticed a few years ago by ex-superintendent Jordan. His report on it in the Cambridge health department files said that contractors would visit it annually, but that nothing was done after the estimates for repair were received. In 1974, a contractor estimated the cost to be $7000, Jordan's report says. Hunneman and Co.--the company which manages Harvard housing--estimated in April the cost of repair...
...Boeing and General Dynamics, the flyoffs payoff is huge. Each ALCM is estimated to cost only $1 million (vs. $5.8 million for a submarine's Trident I ICBM). However, the Pentagon plans to order 3,000, making the prime contractor's share about $2 billion. By early next year, the contest results are to be announced and the first ALCM-armed B-52 could enter the bomber fleet by December...