Word: project
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...will be more possible to build in the next year if we are not locked into a project that requires $60,000 to $70,000 in subsidies," says Schlesinger. "On the other hand, we are committed to providing homes to low income people...
...Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which oversees the industry, is pondering proposals for 35 major construction projects. According to industry estimates, these pipelines could displace about 900,000 bbl. of oil a day. Most bitterly debated is the Iroquois pipeline, a 370-mile-long conduit that would bring Canadian gas to six Northeastern states. A coalition of environmentalists, heating-oil dealers and U.S. gas producers is fighting the project. But last week an administrative-law judge supported FERC's preliminary approval of the pipeline...
...expected retail slump? By expanding, of course. So it was that klieg lights flashed and 50 fashion models strutted their stuff last week to launch a 23-store mall that cost $170 million to build on the famed shopping street. Known as Two Rodeo, the two-block project, which is designed to look as if it had been in place for a century, features an Italianate cobblestone lane called Via Rodeo that comes complete with a piazza, sculpted travertine fountains and a staircase patterned after the Spanish Steps in Rome...
...those prices, the upscale shops must hope to avoid a slump in Christmas sales that some experts say could reduce business up to 4%. But that prospect has not daunted two Japanese investment firms that in June agreed to acquire a majority stake in the project for more than $200 million...
...basic purposes. One is to test ideas for building outposts on other planets, where long stays would be common and resupply impossible. But Biosphere II is more than just the prototype of a space colony. It is a means of learning more about how the earth -- "Biosphere I," in project jargon -- sustains itself through the recycling of water, air and nutrients. Along the way, Space Biospheres Ventures, the company sponsoring the experiment, hopes to find ideas it can market, from air-purification technologies to new varieties of crops...