Even in the good years, manufacturers were agitated by the loss of revenue to foreign builders.
He has an air of world-weariness, earned perhaps in complicated dealings with foreign builders and governments, but it gave way to fervid evangelism when the subject turned, as it did very quickly, to elevators.
Chinese lenders are keen to invest in these, even though China's ambitious construction firms, like other foreign builders, have in the past had their fingers burned trying to break into Brazil's heavily regulated market.
Stimpson charged that foreign builders were subsidized.
Serbian architects took over the development from the foreign builders in the late 19th century, producing the National Theatre, Old Palace, Cathedral Church and later, in the early 20th century, the National Assembly and National Museum, influenced by art nouveau.
The UK has also dangled the prospect of economic support for foreign nuclear builders.
Other war-torn territories, notably Afghanistan, do not have this advantage, but are riven by social, ethnic, and religious tensions.Second, the role which foreign "nation-builders" in East Timor should play was made clearer if more daunting by the sheer extent of the arson, vandalism and looting that accompanied the Indonesian withdrawal.
Mr Nazarbaev has spread his favours even more widely: his daughter runs the state television company, his son-in-law is head of the tax police and a relative of his is head of the powerful foreign investment committee.Nation-builders...Dwelling solely on these flaws, however, does the Caspian's leaders an injustice.
There is hardly a mid-size builder that does not employ foreign workers, says Mr Stiepelmann.
FOREIGN SHIPS SPEEDIER Situation Pointed Out by Builders Is Partly Result of Policy That Aided Passenger Vessels.
