With work scarce, bigger firms started competing with Varvitsiotis for the smaller projects it usually landed.

随着工程项目数减少，大一些的公司开始与他们争抢通常都是由Varvitsiotis来做的那些小项目。

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Several recent projects have boosted NRG’s share price. It has built a wind farm in Texas and started work on a solar farm in California.

最近NRG的几个项目提升了股价，包括在德州建造风力发电站和着手在加州建造太阳能发电站。

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Most of the apprentices have dispersed, but a core group of six continues to work on projects with customers while waiting for the program to be re-started at another college in Santa Fe.

绝大多数学员四散离去，不过比较核心的六个人还在继续工作，等着计划在圣达菲的另一所大学重新启动。

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The government named four pilot areas last year, but local councils have admitted that they have not yet started work on their broadband projects.

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Eventually, other members of the SitePoint community jumped in and started offering cash awards for work on real projects, such as logos and WordPress themes.

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With the economy remaining sluggish, it had to intervene to get infrastructure projects started and the UK construction industry back to work.

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