Veracity bought the fiber system from Provo but couldn't pay off construction bonds and sold it back to the city.
At that price Exxon and partners will have to sell 240 million barrels of Hebron crude just to pay back construction costs.
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Rather than just building houses and then trying to find people to buy them, developers increasingly find people to buy houses in advance, getting the householders to pay for construction.
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Of course, that ignores the plight of the 70, 000 construction workers who also lost pay.
The buyer would then pay more when construction milestones were met, with the balance due at closing.
The vast majority hail from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, working long hours for little pay in the construction industry.
When profit margins were 25%, construction firms could afford to pay off bureaucrats.
StopHS2 campaign manager Joe Rukin said "it's basically a train for the rich that everyone else is not only going to have to pay for the construction of but also have to subsidise throughout its lifetime as well".
And inspired by what she saw and heard, she wrote down her thoughts and donated a piece of work to help pay for the construction of a new statue -- the Statue of Liberty -- which actually was funded in part by small donations from people across America.
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It was first levied in 1902 as a way of getting the rich to help pay for the construction of the Kaiser's navy, putting it among the lesser-known causes of the first world war. (Ordinary folk were doing their part by drinking beer.) It was scrapped in 1933 to stimulate the economy but Hitler brought it back, again with martial intent, six years later.
Employer-clients like Boeing, Citigroup, Pfizer and Microsoft sign contracts in which they agree to pay everything from construction costs to ongoing maintenance in return for on-site child care services for their employees' children. (Often, these employer "sponsors" will also subsidize the parents' tuition.) Under certain "cost-plus" contracts, the employer-sponsors will even shoulder some of the care center's risk in exchange for more control of the operations.
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.
But without individual customers willing to sign up, and pay up, for its construction, buying more Russian gas through existing pipelines will seem an easier and cheaper option.
Even as Google takes ownership of the municipal network, Provo will have to pay off loans for its construction for another dozen years, according to agreements released Thursday by city officials.
For years, we've seen jobs suburbanize in regions across the country, so move away from city centers and further out into metro regions and jobs that pay lower wages, like construction or retail, are among the most suburbanized, and so is manufacturing, which is an industry that's been hit really hard over the last decade.
Jobs in construction, the trades and fire fighting can pay very well, be very rewarding and do not require a college degree.
Many industries that employ workers temporarily or intermittently, such as construction, retailing and seasonal tourism, can pay lower wages than they otherwise would because workers can claim benefit in between jobs.
Refusal to pay salaries is a common scam on the construction sites that soak up much of the immigrant influx during the spring and summer.
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The electricians belonging to the Unite union attempted, as they do every week to, block the construction site there over the employers exit from a national pay scheme.
The money is then used to pay for pet projects, from defense procurement to construction, with no government audits or accountability of any sort.
Construction sites at airports were shut down with workers sent home without pay.
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One of the biggest pay-offs from financial normality will come in property and construction.
Shadow housing minister Jack Dromey repeated calls for a bankers' bonus tax to pay for 25, 000 new homes and 100, 000 new construction jobs for young people.
In a report earlier this year, Mr. Hunter found that insurers have been pushing some of their risk to consumers by capping how much they will pay to replace a home, for example, or refusing to pay extra to account for higher material costs or to meet modern construction codes.
But not everyone gets a break: those working on construction of the venues (UK residents and non-residents) will have to pay taxes just as always.
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Over the years, I've done radio interviews and given speeches where I've been confronted by self-described union members -- electricians, plumbers, carpenters, construction workers -- who complain about illegal immigrants taking jobs and allowing employers to pay lower wages.
Mr Obama noted that the involvement of several jurisdictions, as well as private companies whose payments were tied to performance, meant "construction workers are on the job digging this tunnel, doing great jobs, getting good pay".
Ahmedi says he has had to pay under-the-table kickbacks to some foreign aid agencies even for humanitarian construction projects like schools.
They complained that it is unfair for their states to pay more in federal gas taxes than they get back from Washington for highway and transit construction projects.
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