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...Presidency" [April 26], suggests that this country's communications system is unsophisticated. In fact, the Barbados Telephone Co. offers highly efficient service by any standard. Contrary to what one White House aide told you, the system was certainly not "basically redone" and "left more sophisticated than before." Company workmen laid all the extra cable asked for by the White House Communications Agency. The Barbados Communications System was not in any way enhanced as a result of the President's recent visit...
...January 1982 more than one-third of the tenants in one of the largest Harvard-owned apartment buildings voted to deny access to their homes to University workmen seeking to install the new energy-saying windows. More than 30 tenants in the 9-13a Ware St. building said they opposed the University's plans because the thermopane windows would increase their rents by up to $120 per month while other energy-saying measures would probably cut rents...
...that the building be sold. Concerned about Eliot's original pledge to Schiff, a Faculty committee strongly recommended instead that the upper floors be rented out for no more than five years to raise funds for the museum. The Center for International Affairs (CfIA) moved in, and workmen literally tossed the museum's mahogany display cases out the window...
...story riverfront warehouse. A TV crew was invited to watch the fun as engineers planted 150 Ibs. of dynamite around the foundation. Then a mighty roar and a cloud of dust-but only the first floor was blown out. The rest dropped onto the foundation intact. The next day workmen tried again. And again and again and again. BUILDING 5, DOCKS 0 was the headline in the Mobile Register. And no wonder: constructed by the WPA in the 1930s, the building, all 1 million bricks of it, boasted such features as walls up to 20-in. thick and 72 support...
...Polvere and the workman came to the court with six other people: the three other workmen who were at the scene (which makes sense), and two administrators and an office worker employed by Harvard Real Estate, Inc.--Ms. Lorraine Wade, her secretary, and Mr. David Zewinski...