• But still, some (private) firm wins the design contract, and then some other (private) firm or (private) firms contract out the labor (or most of it) to do things like, environmental studies, surveying, accounting, pouring concrete, laying bricks, stretching wire, managing the people who do environmental studies, surveying, accounting, pouring concrete, laying bricks and stretching wire.

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  • The project has been bogged down ever since it was launched, though a concrete-pouring ceremony at the site last week suggested there might be some progress.

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  • His father, Ted, had a construction company there, which specialized in pouring concrete.

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  • Because we did, shovels will soon be moving earth and trucks will soon be pouring concrete where we are standing.

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  • You say that as soon as America starts pouring concrete to construct anti-missile defences this will constitute a violation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty.

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  • Workers spent two years pouring concrete for the dam, which would have taken 125 years to cool if Crowe hadn't designed an ingenious web of pipes that pumped cold water throughout.

    FORBES: American Pyramids

  • The governor is going to have people out there laying this asphalt, pouring this concrete.

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  • State and federal officials said at that time that the bridge would create about 30 direct jobs and spin off another 220 "indirect" jobs -- supplying the steel, pouring the concrete and boosting the local community's economy.

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  • Iida said Fukushima Daiichi's reactors remain too hot to pour concrete, but he suggested pouring a slurry of minerals and sand over them to carry away heat before encasing them.

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  • As populations swelled, however, and more green spaces turned into concrete, the amount of runoff pouring into rivers dramatically increased.

    CNN: Polluted rivers stain Portland's image

  • In an effort to mimic the soft exterior of a real bed, Mr. Fischer coated one of the bed sculptures with white paint but then interrupted the smooth surface by pouring a pile of real concrete over it, weighing down one side of the sculpture's surface.

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  • Up to 6 feet of water spilled into an industrial park in the Upper 9th Ward of New Orleans at one point late Monday morning, pouring through small gaps in the concrete flood walls before receding in the afternoon.

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