For Qatar, the central response has been the Tourism Master Plan, an aggressive construction and marketing strategy intended to launch the nation onto the world stage.
The state has set an aggressive construction timeline that would require spending $3 million to $5 million every calendar day, assuming construction starts this year, one of the fastest known rates of infrastructure spending in the U.S. The rail authority says it is up to the job and expects to meet the federal funding deadlines.
It should not be an aggressive building.
Now, in the wake of an unfolding nuclear crisis in Japan, those championing aggressive construction of nuclear facilities face an immeasurably more difficult task.
That figure had begun to rise even during the housing boom, a little-noticed byproduct of the aggressive construction of homes encouraged by easy credit.
"The supply of homes for sale is declining rapidly due to the combination of aggressive construction cutbacks and a pickup in sales prompted by price reductions," Mike Larson, a real estate analyst at Weiss Research, wrote.
"But he also had the most comprehensive bid, the most aggressive construction schedule and expressed a thorough understanding of our mission and why it is important for us to get that building back open as quickly as possible".
[Page D1.] Calpine Securities Drop Sharply Securities of Calpine, the nation's largest independent power producer, plummeted as investors grew uneasy about the company's ability to finance its aggressive construction plan in markets still reeling from Enron's collapse.
SECURITIES of the Calpine Corporation, the nation's largest independent power producer, plummeted yesterday as investors grew uneasy about the company's ability to finance its aggressive construction plan in markets still reeling from Enron's collapse.
One of Calpine's biggest problems with investors is how it is going to pay for its aggressive construction plan, in which it hopes to bring its megawatt-hour production from 11,000 to almost 30,000 by 2003.
Though the remarks by officials did not represent a moratorium on construction of a new high-speed transit hub in the city of Stuttgart, it did mark the first time officials inched away from an aggressive insistence that construction move ahead on the Stuttgart 21 project, said leaders of the opposition movement in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
