Operating through an office in Beijing, NCG provided the critical link between Pyongyang and Damascus, acquiring key materials from vendors in China and probably from Europe, and secretly transferring them to a desert construction site near the Syrian town of Al Kibar, The Post reported, citing U.S. officials, European intelligence officials and diplomats.
The film festival wound down the previous evening, and now the thoroughfare between the beach and the cinemas is deserted except for construction workers in threes and fours dismantling the decorations.
When Dermot Lynch, a retired and newly widowed Englishman, decides to visit his son and daughter-in-law in a seaside village in southern Spain, he excitedly writes to say that he is looking forward to getting his "first taste of 'abroad.' " But he arrives to find a development that has been deserted midway through construction, and a son deserted by his wife.
I'm not saying this because it's located in a dicey end of town which is probably referred to as "up and coming" but definitely causes you to instinctively lock your doors, all chain link fences, deserted lots, and construction vehicles abandoned at noon on a Tuesday.
His father, a construction company owner, deserted the family and left them poor.
The toxic fumes of a million mostly old cars mixes with smoke from farmers burning rice straw, industrial pollutants and desert and construction work dust.
Downtown Chicago is deserted on Saturday mornings, except for the construction workers remaking Wacker Drive, a major downtown thoroughfare.
Retaliation In late 2004, two weeks after Umar Israilov deserted, a police supervisor appeared at a construction company in Grozny where his father worked.
Other images — of accidents, equipment, thronged or deserted streets, and men in topcoats and bowler hats measuring at construction sites — are as fascinating and puzzling as found snapshots.
Construction sites that until recently throbbed with the sound of heavy machinery are deserted.
