As Larry Mishel shows, the unemployment rate would be almost as high as it is even if we ignore everyone in or formerly in construction.
McCurdy Enterprises, formerly a construction company, has a scheme to load water from Gisborne Lake into oil tankers and ship it to parched souls in Asia; and, though a recently called provincial election has put things on hold, the Newfoundland government has been giving the deal serious thought.
Outside Tripoli, the Qaddafi stronghold, about 500 civilian refugees from the rebel advance have gathered in a makeshift camp that formerly housed Chinese construction workers.
Brad doesn't actually fall into this fallacy, but you often find people writing about the Great Recession and subsequent Lesser Depression as if they were largely about trying to find a place for all the people formerly employed in construction.
For the first time in his life, a formerly self-employed construction worker can't afford to pay the heating bills that would keep him, his wife, and his three children warm throughout a brutal winter in Detroit, LINK reports Steve Neavling of the Detroit Free Press.
Tree No. 55, a honey locust, is across from a flatiron building, formerly called the Medical Arts Building, that was here before the construction of the Grand Concourse, says the voice of the official Bronx historian, Lloyd Ultan.
A reorientation of its industry (formerly based on naval construction) followed, though the city continues to serve as a naval base.
The influx of new, home improvement-related enterprises continues, beginning this year in January when the Window Gallery, formerly of Thornwood, completed construction of its bulding at 515 North State Road and set up its showroom.
In another interview, a person formerly employed by a construction company that built light rail lines at Denver and Newark International Airports, raised questions yesterday about the type of ballast used in the train that crashed at Kennedy.
Washington Group International, the large construction company formerly known as Morrison Knudsen, said that it is suing the Raytheon Company over losses and cost overruns at an engineering unit that Washington acquired last year.
