" Then he signed up to be rush and social chair, "a crash course in project management and getting people to do stuff for you.

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Few developments were hit harder in the real estate crash than this mixed-use project in the desert 20 miles southeast of Las Vegas.

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On a visit to London's prestigious Bartlett School, Quest takes a crash course in design, lends his ideas to a class project and tries to understand why it takes architects so long to get their hands on a real building.

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The project began to lose speed with the 1929 stock market crash on Wall Street, which reverberated throughout the Western world and took away Kahn's fortune.

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Edward A. Murphy was an engineer who was involved in a 1949 Air Force project MX981 to test how much deceleration a person could withstand in a crash.

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