Word: project
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...hospitals, schools, superhighways, sports arenas. Many Saudis went in a single generation from mud huts to trim low-cost housing, free education for their children through the university level, and free medical care in modern hospitals. Fahd managed affairs with Bedouin shrewdness. He insisted that as soon as a project was approved, money for it had to be set aside. The practice horrified financial advisers who thought the cash should be invested to earn interest, but when oil prices broke and the kingdom's oil income plunged to $20 billion annually or less, Fahd, then King, did not have...
Without this, the art, so to speak, fails, for the project of the artist is to create new expressions of the Known, he continues. And continues...
...German professor, gesturing broadly from behind the podium, maintains that the essence of the creative production, be it the project of the many, or indeed, of the singular, is above all relevant to the schizophrenia of the author...
...percentage of its oil from Iraq and Kuwait, and from the whole Persian Gulf for that matter. Should Saddam cut off access to Gulf oil, it would certainly spell trouble for our economy in the short term, but we could use the opportunity to develop alternative energy sources, a project long overdue...
...often when America builds a monument, it's to one great individual, " says American University history professor Alan Kraut, who was an adviser on the project. "What is so special about Ellis Island is it really is a monument to the masses." The chief monument is the main building itself, a beaux arts structure with French Renaissance trappings that was erected in 1900 after fire destroyed an earlier terminal. Immigration dropped off sharply after Congress imposed restrictive quotas in the 1920s, and by 1954 Ellis Island was abandoned to the pigeons and vandals. Its revival was supervised by the Statue...