Royal officials said the refurbishment would "future-proof" Buckingham Palace.
HUD's former chief administrative officer, Helen Foster, filed a complaint with the department's special counsel last fall charging that she was demoted in part because she warned other officials that the planned refurbishment would require congressional notification because it would exceed $5,000.
TVA officials cite "extensive refurbishments, replacements and improvements" in asserting that the new implementation of its old plant will be "a safe, high quality nuclear unit".
In these days of austerity, eight official residences and now, a £150m refurbishment bill, is madness.
With a big refurbishment now under way, officials seem rather embarrassed by it.Chinese and American leaders would probably like to see the Taiwan problem similarly put to one side.
The official added: "The initial estimate for the refurbishment of Buckingham Palace looks like £150m".
WHEN the Teatro Colón, Latin America's most famous opera house, closed for refurbishment in November 2006, Buenos Aires city officials vowed that it would reopen in time for its centenary on May 25th 2008.
On Avenida Juárez, the main drag, government officials now bark into cellphones, orchestrating Guanajuato's refurbishment.
A10 Military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are running $12.3 billion over budget, and Pentagon officials are transferring money from other accounts and delaying refurbishment of worn-out equipment.
Afghanistan's intelligence service reported to the United States that, around 2005 or 2006, Omar had received "up to thirty million dollars from Pakistan" to fund the Taliban's refurbishment and recruitment of fighters, according to a former official who read the reporting.
