The collapse is, as of this writing, about to claim its seventh victim, Meagan Toothman, 24, a high school cheerleading coach from Cincinnati. (On Aug. 22, her organs were being harvested for transplant.) Much of it will focus on the construction of the temporary stage itself, which could not withstand a 70 mph wind gust, and fell forward onto the crowd.

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Outside economists criticized the report for counting government-funded construction spending, and for assuming London could have any higher of a profile on the world stage than it did before the games.

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Vingroup now has a portfolio of 31 real estate developments: 12 have been completed, 3 are under construction and the rest are in some stage of preconstruction planning (several projects are on hold, so as not to drive down the prices of other inventory, given the soft market).

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