Two restaurants, CiaoBella at 85th Street, which closed on Wednesday, and Cinema Cafe at 70th Street, which closed at the end of July, say they shut down after losing a large chunk of sidewalk to construction barriers, which prevented them from putting up outdoor tables, a major source of earnings.
Pyongyang gets a big chunk of that for turnkey construction and expert staffing; Khartoum a smaller percentage for acting as cutout, site protector and smuggler; and Baghdad gets its old missiles refurbished and new, longer-range missiles built.
A substantial chunk of the institute's £20m construction budget would go to purchase new-generation sequencing machines that had already transformed the human genome project.
A large chunk of the funds for the construction will come from China as part of a deal that will see it lead on the development of another reactor in Bradwell, Essex.
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A small handful of protesters lit firecrackers or threw water bottles, chunks of concrete and construction rebar at police officers.
Thanks to the housing crisis, a good chunk of those folks were in the construction business.
The district borrowed $68.5 million to renovate its eight schools in 2000, and the biggest chunk of the increase would be used for construction, cleaning and utility costs for the new space, Mr. Jaeger said.
This requires lots of construction.
The air is coming out of China's housing boom, and a slowdown in construction will knock a healthy chunk off of GDP:"If they build the same amount (in 2012) that they did last year, which is still a phenomenal rate of construction, then it would take GDP down to 6.6 percent," said Patrick Chovanec, an economist who teaches at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management in Beijing.
