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...Construction began in 1969 as Marcos Sr was gunning for a second term, and the bridge was inaugurated on Imelda Marcos’s birthday in 1973....
...The now ubiquitous style took root in the US just after the second world war, with the construction of entirely glass buildings with steel frames....
...In New York, Ian Woods, the former US head of building products and construction at Jefferies, has been hired as a managing director in the bank’s industrials group....
...The pack has been following the scent of wounded UK construction and services group Carillion ever since its major profit warning last summer....
...In the spring of 2013, Jobs’s successor as CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Cook, decided the company needed to borrow $17 billion. Yes, borrow....
...We have had trouble classifying workers for decades, particularly in unglamorous sectors such as construction and trucking....
...Alan Clarke, economist at Scotiabank, said he was a “bit sceptical that things are really this grim” in the sector, pointing in particular to brick production remaining relatively robust....
...Outgoing editor and keen pedestrian Alan Rusbridger said that the move reflected reader anxiety over climate change. Prices of quinoa and lentil futures are expected to soar....
...Mechanisation now dominates agriculture, large-scale construction and manufacturing....
...Creativity, Inc – a finalist for FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year – explains the failures, the tensions and the ultimate accolades from Finding Nemo to Toy Story....
...Ms Crisman moved to the US from the Netherlands in 2002 after she married her American husband Alan....
...However, Alan Clarke, an economist at Scotia Capital, said that on his calculations the economy would still shrink 0.1 per cent on current trends....
...the colour and vivacity of “A Bigger Splash”, Hockney’s 1967 painting; for this collection, it was how the 75-year-old artist wears clothes today, along with his fellow Yorkshireman, 79-year-old writer Alan...
...Many Hispanics worked in industries such as construction, blacks were hit by cutbacks in the public sector, and both groups were under-represented in professional jobs where there were fewer lay-offs....
...My dad worked in construction at the time, so he and Mum must have scrimped and saved to raise the £53 to buy it....
...Alan Fine, of AngloGold, said it was not clear what the workers’ demands were at the Kopanang mine....
...Alan Rubenstein, chief executive of the UK’s £11bn Pension Protection Fund, created under the Pensions Act of 2004, has a bullish belief that a collective of pension funds can run an infrastructure fund...
...The report, by Professor Alan Manning of the London School of Economics, said while recent caution on increases was justified, the minimum wage’s impact had “stalled’’....
...Mr Timis said a team from SNC-Lavalin, the Toronto-listed engineering and construction group, had been hired to complete expansion of the first phase of the project, which is expected to produce 20m tonnes...
...Four years since the peak of the real estate market, the construction freeze that accompanied the bursting of the bubble has thawed, as developers try to complete their projects to stay afloat....
...Sirius said initial construction of the York Project would cost $2.7bn in total....
...There have even been 65,000 new jobs in construction in the past year, and 32,000 in finance, although employment in those sectors is significantly more sluggish than in the rest of the economy....
...Alan Johnson, economist at the Engineering Employers Federation, whose members are manufacturers, said the slowdown in cash deposits was somewhat surprising, given the growing uncertainty....
...Also on Wednesday, the commerce department said construction spending jumped 1.5 per cent in December as private building surged to a two-year high....
...Alan Clarke, an economist at Scotia Capital, said the numbers “should not have come as a surprise, given the financial market jitters and bloodbath in international indicators”....
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