On a recent day, cranes, dump trucks and earth-moving vehicles were busy carrying out Sochi's facelift.
For now, the workers labour in a cloud of red dust, stirred up by the earth-moving equipment.
Caterpillarwas badly hurt by the housing crisis and subsequent recession, which undercut demand for its construction and earth-moving equipment.
The serious money goes to an entourage of private contractors, who supply everything from earth-moving equipment and helicopters to portable showers.
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"It is time for Congress to act, " Obama told workers as he stood in front of a backdrop of heavy earth-moving machinery.
In the U.S., Sany has signed up 12 dealers for excavators, mostly in the Northeast, and sold a negligible number of earth-moving machines.
But some businesses are cashing in on the plague: contractors have tripled the rental for earth-moving equipment needed to bury the dead pigs.
The earth-moving equipment kicked in only minutes after President Obama signed the economic stimulus bill his administration pushed through Congress 11 months ago.
"When they actually come onto a site with large, earth-moving equipment about, disrupting the actual, lawful business, they're getting in the way of that, " Mr Bolton said.
Meanwhile, even the mines in Hpakant in Myanmar have seen more mechanization in recent years, with earth-moving machines replacing many human workers, though the site overall remains unruly.
Doctors investigating a theory that earth-moving simultaneous orgasms assist fertility found that women who experienced pleasurable sex retained more active sperm from their partners than those that did not.
Caterpillar ( CAT - news - people )was badly hurt by the housing crisis and subsequent recession, which undercut demand for its construction and earth-moving equipment.
On Friday, Phobos-Grunt was moving around the Earth at an altitude that varied between 177km (perigee) and 224km (apogee).
The Illinois-based manufacturer of mining and earth moving equipment reported third quarter earnings that blew past Wall Street estimates, and the company also raised its full year guidance, sending shares up more than 5% this morning.
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It even crops up in Islamic mystical tradition in the concept of Tay al-Ard, or "the folding up of the earth, " whereby a person is, without actually moving, miraculously transported to a far-off destination by the world spinning very rapidly beneath their feet.
Light from stars and galaxies moving towards Earth, by contrast, would be blue-shifted.
When the cosmic rays and gamma rays smash into molecules in the Earth's atmosphere, they set off a cascade of other fast-moving particles.
Mr Collier wiped away tears as he described how he had completed some earth moving at the site in Ffordd Penrhwylfa when he saw the five-foot wall collapse as Meg walked past.
That's because as the Earth moves around the Sun, it is moving into a stationary field of dark matter - and for half the year it will be moving against the tide of dark matter - just like driving into the rain.
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While it is technically possible to convert sunlight into electricity anywhere, it costs far less to do so in areas that receive the most powerful forms of sunlight--sunlight that loses the least amount of radiant energy while moving from space to earth.
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