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Volta Redonda

(Encyclopedia) Volta RedondaVolta Redondavôlˈtä rĕdôNˈdä [key], city (1996 pop. 228,939), Rio de Janeiro state, E Brazil, on the Paraíba River. Its proximity to sources of hydroelectricity and basic…

Projects in the Pipeline

Current pipeline projects and their staggering costs by David Johnson This article was posted on August 27, 2000. The consortium of Western oil companies exploring the Caspian Sea…

Art manager---industrial design

Anonymous Tell us about your work---what do you do? Currently, I am the Senior Art Manager for Beaulieu Residential, the residential carpet division of…

Levitt, William Jaird

(Encyclopedia) Levitt, William JairdLevitt, William Jairdlĕvˈət [key], 1907–94, American builder, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. After studying at New York Univ., he (and his brother) joined his father's…

Work Projects Administration

(Encyclopedia) Work Projects Administration (WPA), former U.S. government agency, established in 1935 by executive order of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the Works Progress Administration;…

Public Works Administration

(Encyclopedia) Public Works Administration (PWA), in U.S. history, New Deal government agency established (1933) by the Congress as the Federal Administration of Public Works, pursuant to the…

The Thief

Director/Writer:Pavel ChukhraiDirector of Photography:Vladimir KlimovEditors:Marina Dobryanskaya and Natalia KucherenkoMusic:Vladimir DashkevichProduction Designer:Vikctor PetrovProducers:…

Grand Junction

(Encyclopedia) Grand Junction, city (2020 pop. 65,560), seat of Mesa co., W Colo., at the junction of the Gunnison and Colorado rivers; inc. 1891. The…