But at the United Nations in September, Mr. Obama used the word "restrain" in referring to construction, suggesting the administration realized it was unlikely to get a total freeze.
"The fact is, the record of the town has been virtually negligible in the last 25 years," Mr. Kapell said, referring to construction of low-cost housing.
"WHEN it comes to our waterfront, we're vigilant in the extreme these days," said Craig King, this city's development commissioner, referring to construction of some of the first new homes on the Long Island Sound here in many years.
"As far as I know, we're the first Western company to take down a site to do a greenfield project," said Mark Spitalnik, the chief executive of China Senior Care, referring to construction on a previously undeveloped location.
"When viewed in the context of what happened around it," said Judy Stanton, executive director of the Brooklyn Heights Association, referring to construction last year of towers on Court Street and Montague Street, "you can't help but be grateful".
Obama has used the term himself to refer to construction in East Jerusalem, and Cooper told me, "I called them settlements because that's the heart of the dispute between the Israelis and the United States: settlement construction in Arab East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians want for an eventual Palestinian state".
"There's a lot of plumbers and bricklayers, iron workers, good, solid Americans, who are going to more likely find work, 300,000 of them, if they can get these projects back," he said, referring to construction he says has been halted because their sponsors cannot insure their buildings against terrorist attacks.
Conclusions include that: students lack knowledge and awareness relative to the mass and density of materials; students are precluded from conducting optimum design hazard identification and risk assessments, and Civil Engineering education must be reviewed in terms of addressing / referring to construction health and safety, and ergonomics in other subjects.
"To refer to construction jobs as temporary shows that the people who make those comments don't understand the industry," David Mallino, Legislative Director for the Laborers International Union off North America (LiUNA), told VICE News.
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