Booth, 58, an assistant project manager for a construction company, was treated for stage 1 breast cancer in 1999.

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Construction for the first stage of the scheme starts this month and the full project should be completed by 2015.

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Outside economists criticized the report for counting government-funded construction spending, and for assuming London could have any higher of a profile on the world stage than it did before the games.

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The collapse is, as of this writing, about to claim its seventh victim, Meagan Toothman, 24, a high school cheerleading coach from Cincinnati. (On Aug. 22, her organs were being harvested for transplant.) Much of it will focus on the construction of the temporary stage itself, which could not withstand a 70 mph wind gust, and fell forward onto the crowd.

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Sageworks analyzed accounts receivable days for privately held companies in various construction-related industries, including those tied to early-stage work, such as architectural design and foundation work, and those for drywall, flooring and other end-of-project tasks.

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