The idea is to stoke construction of low-income rental housing.
The formulas were developed primarily to give planners of, say, construction projects an idea of their manpower needs, and to tell policy makers how many jobs would be created.
Once it had been decided to keep at least one of the two new aircraft-carriers under construction, the idea that Britain should give up flying jets from them for a decade made little sense.
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Conceptually, I think this is a cool idea, allowing for both flexible power construction and a very safe reactor design.
Building continued, but slowed after the second facade was finished, as the construction workers and designers had no idea how to follow the original plans for the rest of the building.
And the idea that major cities are witnessing a bubble of apartment construction flies in the face of the argument that major cities need a bubble of apartment construction.
"And at a time when the unemployment rate is rising faster than at any point in the past 20 years, this idea would cost another 300, 000 jobs in the construction industry, including more than 11, 000 right here in Pennsylvania, " he said.
The idea of rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure and creating lots of jobs for construction workers sidelined by the housing market slump sure seemed like a good one.
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"The idea of working from 3-D information to 3-D construction is one of the key areas of research, working from body scan data and then linking that up to a knitting machine, " says Black.
These revolutions can be triggered by technological breakthroughs, such as the construction of the first telescope (which overthrew the Aristotelian idea that heavenly bodies are perfect and unchanging) and by conceptual breakthroughs such as the invention of calculus (which allowed the laws of motion to be formulated).
That's not a Democratic idea or a Republican idea--it's a common-sense idea: Investments that create, maintain, or expand transportation networks create construction jobs even as they promote economic activity.
In the construction industry, developers race to build office buildings without having the slightest idea who the first tenant would be.
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The idea of obtaining more energy from off-shore and Arctic oil and gas deposits and accelerating the construction of a new generation of nuclear plants will continue to receive at least presidential lip service.
Within a year, the Sands Macao had recouped its construction costs, of two hundred and sixty-five million dollars, and Adelson embarked on an idea that he described as coming to him in a dream: to replicate the Las Vegas Strip on a stretch of open sea between two islands in Macau.
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