Word: project
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AASU members plan to collect textbooks' dropped in bins near the first- and second-year mailboxes in Aldrich Hall at the Harvard Business School. Although the collection bins are at the Business School, book drive leaders said they hope both graduate and undergraduate students will participate in the project...
Carson ordered researchers to document any instances where King had lifted other persons' words and ideas without credit. They were extensive. The board of the King Papers Project, at a 1989 meeting attended by Coretta King, decided to reveal the facts in its first volumes of papers, due in 1992. But last week the Wall Street Journal broke the story...
After some rocky debates over responsibility for cost overruns, the international consortium of banks that provided the bulk of the financing for the project has agreed to put up an extra $6 billion to complete the project, which will have a total cost of $14.7 billion. In addition, $1 billion will be raised this month from a share offering...
...French side, the project has served as a magnet, attracting high- velocity rail lines and new highways that will speed travelers from Britain into Europe's expanding transport network. By contrast, residents of Britain's prosperous rural Kent have opposed construction and the industrialization that will follow. British road and rail systems -- which include no high-speed equipment -- remain inadequate. Thatcher's government spends only a fraction of France's commitment to improving infrastructure. Many businessmen fear that Britain's failure to take full advantage of the Chunnel link will not make it easier for them to compete...
...hands, fares will tend to rise. Megacarriers facing less competition are also more likely to drop service to less profitable markets, depriving local residents of affordable transportation choices and hurting regional economies by choking off business travel. Says Christopher Witkowski, executive director of the Washington-based Aviation Consumer Action Project: "Passengers will be paying more for service that is of a decreasing quality." In the long run, the industry will regain its strength. Boeing chairman Frank Shrontz, who enjoys a bird's-eye view of the business, maintains that passenger-traffic growth will average 5% or more for the next...