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Several robot cities have been planned for the country: the first will be built in 2009 at a cost of 500 billion won, of which 50 billion is direct government investment.
MCP received this order from the Dutch government because their computer met all the technical and other demands, including the demand that the computers should be of Dutch origin and should be built in the Netherlands.
The British Pacific Island Company acquired the rights to Clipperton's guano deposits in 1906, and built a mining settlement on the island in conjunction with the Mexican government.
The government had a target to build 400, 000 new houses a year to replace those which had been destroyed in the war, but shortages of materials and manpower meant that less than half this number were built.
First known as Hi-Catoctin, Camp David was originally built as a camp for federal government agents and their families, by the WPA, starting in 1935, opening in 1938.
Although classical liberalism built on ideas that had already developed by the end of the 18th century, it advocated a specific kind of society, government and public policy as a response to the Industrial Revolution and urbanization.
For example Barcelona had a great citadel built in 1714 to intimidate the Catalans against repeating their mid-17th-and early-18th-century rebellions against the Spanish central government.
Inspired by Babbage's difference engine plans, Per Georg Scheutz built several difference engines from 1855 onwards, one of which was sold to the British government in 1859.
During the Cold War, many countries built fallout shelters for high-ranking government officials and crucial military facilities.
Switzerland built an extensive network of fallout shelters, not only through extra hardening of government buildings such as schools, but also through a building regulation that ensured that all residential building built after 1968 contained a nuclear shelter able to withstand a blast from a 50 megaton explosion at a distance of 700 metres.
In 1872 the first secondary school was built. On 3 December 1877 Grenada's old representative system of government was replaced by the pure Crown Colony model.
To speed up the construction works, the Polish government in November 1924 signed a contract with the French-Polish Consortium for Gdynia Seaport Construction, which by the end of 1925 had built a small seven-metre-deep harbour, the south pier, part of the north pier, a railway, and had also ordered the trans-shipment equipment.
From its revenues, the government has built roads, schools, hospitals, and other public infrastructure facilities and services.
In 1998 the Slovak government turned to the International Court, demanding the Nagymaros part to be built.
The Suez Canal, having been built by the French government, belonged to the French Republic and was operated by the Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez.
The government also built railroads, improved road, and inaugurated a land reform program to prepare the country for further development.
In the early Meiji period, the government built factories and shipyards that were sold to entrepreneurs at a fraction of their value.
The Japanese government in 1974 started feasibility study under grant aid to develop and built Television in Afghanistan.
Final production version Jeeps built by Willys-Overland were the Model MB, while those built by Ford were the Model GPW ( G = government vehicle, P designated the 80 " wheelbase, and W = the Willys engine design ).
A new international terminal was built by the government of Japan and began operation since 2008, which is the first of three terminals to be opened so far.
A convention hall, the Festhalle, was built in Art Nouveau style, 1905 – 07 on a rise overlooking the city park and facing the modernist Bundesamt, the regional government building.
To take advantage of the country's sizable iron ore deposits in Zouerate, the new government built a 675-km railway and a mining port.

government and railroads
He opposed non-essential government spending and the railroads, while his constituents looked forward to improvements in their transportation from the railroads.
The government acted to modernize the legal and penal systems, attempted to stabilize prices, amortize debts, reform the banking and currency systems, build railroads and highways, improve public health facilities, legislate against traffic in narcotics, and augment industrial and agricultural production.
The government and the railroads both shared in the increased value of the land grants, which the railroads developed.
In 1913, United Fruit established the Tela Railroad Company and shortly thereafter a similar subsidiary, the Trujillo Railroad Company ; these two railroads managed the concessions which the Honduran government granted them.
The institutional power of the National Guard grew in most government owned enterprises, until eventually it controlled the national radio and telegraph networks, the postal and immigration services, health services, the internal revenue service, and the national railroads.
Until the early 1970s, the government had favored the railroads, believing they better met the country's requirements for transportation and that the primary purpose of roads was to act as feeders to the rail system.
The railroads were also a profitable government operation, and road competition was not viewed as desirable.
** Conrail ( Consolidated Rails Corporation ) is formed by the U. S. government, to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that had filed for bankruptcy protection.
The US government also acquired easement rights to the western part of the territory, which became the Oklahoma Territory, for the construction of railroads.
If the federal government believed that the railroads were making too much profit, they might see this as an opportunity to force lowering of the railway tariff rates.
A successor statute, the Newlands Act of 1913, which created the Board of Mediation, proved to be more effective, but was largely superseded when the federal government nationalized the railroads in 1917.
The United States had entered World War I in April 1917, and the government found that the nation's railroads were not prepared to serve the war effort.
In the 1880s, the railroads purchased land in the west from the federal government, which was then sold to individuals to help finance the railroad projects.
For example the Federal government of the United States ' TIGER initiative compiled interlinked databases of federal, state and local political borders and census enumeration areas, and of roadways, railroads, and water features with support for locating street addresses within street segments.
In 1864 and 1865, Union raids commanded by Lovell Rousseau and James H. Wilson attacked Opelika, tearing up the railroads and destroying all government property, including Opelika's warehouses.
The most common uses of property taken by eminent domain are for government buildings and other facilities, public utilities, highways, and railroads ; however, it may also be taken for reasons of public safety, such as in the case of Centralia, Pennsylvania.
The Munn case allowed states to regulate certain businesses within their borders, including railroads, and is commonly regarded as a milestone in the growth of federal government regulation.
On the other hand, it allowed vast tracts of land under its ownership to remain uncultivated and, in Guatemala and elsewhere, it discouraged the government from building highways, which would lessen the profitable transportation monopoly of the railroads under its control.
Morgan hoped to dominate transatlantic shipping through interlocking directorates and contractual arrangements with the railroads, but that proved impossible because of the unscheduled nature of sea transport, American antitrust legislation, and an agreement with the British government.
Much of the craze in railroad investment was driven by government land grants and subsidies to the railroads.
Going on to total over 200 state enterprises, these included the costly state railroads concern, the state oil monopoly YPF, several public utilities, two government television stations, 10, 000 km ( 6000 mi ) of roads, steel and petrochemical firms, grain elevators, hotels, subways and even racetracks.

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