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  • Turkey exports iron to Iran for use in the country's construction industry (a solid material vital for construction in a nation prone to earthquakes).

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  • The storm has been a boon to the local construction and renovation industry, a sharp contrast to the national construction business as a whole, which has been slowed by economic recession.

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  • Harald joins in, describing a scene under construction, a character who refuses to leave.

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  • In the mid-1960s Slim bought a bottling plant and created a construction company and a real estate firm.

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  • Jim Reis, owner of a construction company and a member of the board of education, is one of those who backstopped the loan.

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  • Meanwhile, in Spain, organizers constructed a pavilion from 45, 000 recycled milk cartons, winning the world record for a construction project using a recycled material.

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  • The site was originally intended to be a parking garage until construction uncovered a series of Roman ruins, now preserved in the underground Antiquarium museum.

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  • If you give a teacher or a construction worker or a receptionist, just working folks -- if you give them a little more money, what do they do?

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  • And the reason is that -- look, when a construction worker has a got a little money in his pocket, now he starts thinking about buying a new car.

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    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • Homex quelled market worries somewhat in April via the sale of stakes in two penitentiaries, and by securing a bridge loan for construction under a new loan-guarantee program being offered by the government.

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  • After that vote, Commissioner David Stern cited the existence of a "strong ownership group, " a construction team and a plan for a new arena, plus strong support from officials and residents in the Sacramento area.

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  • With its gleaming white marble floor, minimalist decor and crew of white-gloved waiters bearing trays of lemon tea, the sales office at Lodha Fiorenza looks more like a plush salon than something makeshift on a construction site where a tall crane stands next to half-finished towers.

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  • Beyond his on-field exploits -- from his time at the University of Tennessee to his years playing with the Saints, Patriots, Philadelphia Eagles, Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens and Washington Redskins -- Stallworth is known for hitting and killing a construction worker crossing a street in Miami in 2009.

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  • Just now, for instance, Lebanon is riding a boom in tourism and construction, a sudden balmy spell following years of turbulence.

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  • The Scottish government has expressed disappointment at the uncertainty over a start date for the construction of a subsea power cable.

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  • This month, it began renting luxury apartments at the 47-story 500 Lake Shore Dr. Last year, a Related venture also resumed construction on a stalled Chicago skyscraper at 111 West Wacker Dr. that it is converting into a rental-apartment tower.

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  • Two heavyweights in the race for mayor, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and former Comptroller Bill Thompson, are having their first major campaign clash over what seems like a neighborhood issue: the construction of a garbage-transfer station on the Upper East Side.

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  • 's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, on Friday passed a resolution demanding that Iran stop construction on a once-secret nuclear enrichment facility in the Iranian holy city of Qom.

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  • Though the Opera del Duomo chose Brunelleschi's model, it appointed a four-man team to oversee construction, a team that included Ghiberti.

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  • Iraq veteran Curtis Ridgeway, co-founder of Urban Improvement Construction, a real estate development, design and construction firm, discovered the Veterans Corporation center in St.

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  • He also said it has worked to strike a balance between increased demand for new construction in a prosperous city and preserving its past.

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  • However, the gain was driven by a 31.1 percent in apartment construction - a volatile category - and the report led to some trepidation over future projects.

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  • Next door in Mali, Gadhafi funded the construction of a popular mosque in the capital Bamako, and helped pay for a Malian government complex that's under construction.

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  • More than 150 years ago, in 1848, a man called James Marshall was supervising the construction of a sawmill in the Sierra foothills when he noticed something glitter in a riverbed.

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