Ms. Ali has not been back to Afghanistan yet, but Ms. Grauel recently spent two weeks in Kabul arranging for construction of the school.
In 1916 Mr. Conroy arranged for the construction of the Greenwich Village Theater, which he subsequently directed for three years as a repertory organization.
There are legendary stories about how former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka arranged for the construction of a bullet train through his home prefecture, bringing sudden wealth to any town influential enough to get a station connecting it to the capital.
To obtain enough fissionable uranium and plutonium, Groves arranged for the construction and operation by industrial contractors of huge facilities on the Columbia River, at Hanford, Wash., and in the region of Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Before that he was chief technology officer at Microsoft, and was such an enthusiast for information technology that he arranged for the construction of two versions of Charles Babbage's difference engine, a mechanical computer designed in the 1820s, but never actually built.
He also arranged for the construction of greenhouses and a kitchen garden.
In addition, he appeared to be abiding by the terms of a 1994 agreement (called the Agreed Framework) with the United States in which North Korea would dismantle its own nuclear program in return for arranging for the construction by an outside party of two nuclear reactors capable of producing electric power.
A medical tent was set up as at Ben Suc, and next to it blossomed a yellow nylon pavilion, shaped like a circus tent, with chairs and a table in its shade This was referred to as the "command tent," but most of the commanders were too busy arranging for the construction of the camp to sit down.
"I view Amory as my older, much smarter brother," said Paul Westbrook, Texas Instruments' project manager for worldwide construction, who arranged for an institute team of 11 design and energy experts led by Mr. Lovins to conduct a three-day brainstorming session in December with engineers and executives responsible for planning a chip factory and office near the company's Dallas headquarters.
