Negotiations with the government over how the huge project will be funded are continuing.
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If the would-be investors handle it better next time, such a huge project may prove irresistible.
The one truly huge project still on the cards may be the most hotly debated.
And they've begun a huge project to bring water from the south, the South to North Water Diversion Project.
You've got a -- it's a huge project involving all 50 states.
Yet support by the users is indeed vital if the huge project, however technically successful, is not to become a glossy package with little inside.
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But his defence that it was "a huge project, one of the biggest the country will see" was dismissed by London mayor Ken Livingstone as "nonsense" suggesting it could be ready as soon as 2010.
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But he adds that the prize can also be seen as "an exhortation not to let this huge project of genius which is the European Union go to the dogs simply because of national selfishness and short-sightedness".
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By late 1997 it was possible for the agency to decide that, although there had until then been only some limited sequencing of individual genes, the state's laboratories were ready to jump into a huge project and sequence a complete organism.
The Ethiopian government is issuing bonds and the population, all 85 million of us, are buying bonds in order to chip in to this huge Nile project.
Of immediate concern are plans to raise billions of dollars through a multinational offering of shares in a huge coal project, Tavan Tolgoi, also in South Gobi province.
It stretches across 6.2 million square meters -- making it roughly twice as big as New York's Central Park -- and it represents a huge commercial project for investors.
Leaving aside the controversy of whether the UK needs extra airport capacity, there was a feeling at Friday's opening that Terminal 5 represented a rare British success story - a huge capital project that was completed on time and within budget.
It started in 2002, he says, when he got a tip about a huge pork barrel project.
The mining companies point out the huge benefits the project brings in terms of employment, tax revenue and foreign exchange.
Only a fraction of what was built for singleplayer will appear in multiplayer: these 8-10 hours of breathless blockbuster frenzy were clearly a huge and expensive project, not a routine one.
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Seen originally as a huge inward investment project, it was built with foreign money and government funds in the hope of creating a world-standard private hospital to be used by wealthy foreigners.
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"It's a huge, complex engineering project, " said Anastasia Chernova, a spokeswoman for the Sochi Department of Railway Construction.
The huge success of my project inspired me to expand my vision of making every parent potential a reality across the State of Maryland.
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By nature of the ever-changing landscape of digital video, you have to be quick and effective in your projects, even when the project is huge.
But while it would be a huge mistake to linearly project continued demographic improvement for Russia, it would be just as big a mistake to linearly project future demographic decline.
At AngelHACK, Raphie won third place and a huge trophy for building a project called ShareBrowse (which is currently down).
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And the major part of the project is a huge dam called the Cofferdam, which has been built to hold back the water from the docks.
Voters remember Mr Clark for fiscal deficits, fudged budget figures, stiff tax increases and huge cost overruns on a ferry project.
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The task is huge, perhaps the biggest restoration project ever undertaken.
"People seem to think there's a button you can press, and we're going to raise all these people from the dead, " joked Bedwood, who has seen a huge spike in interest in the project over the past week.
This project will digitise a huge range of printed books, pamphlets and periodicals dated 1700 to 1870, the period that saw the French and Industrial Revolutions, The Battle of Trafalgar and the Crimean War, the invention of rail travel and of the telegraph, the beginning of UK income tax, and the end of slavery.
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One of the most important tasks for the researchers will be extracting meaning from the huge amounts of data created by the project.
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