The total operation was a construction project comparable in magnitude with the Panama Canal, but in 1917 time was in short supply ; ;

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

This project was carried out under sponsorship of the Ballistic Missile Division of the Air Research and Development Command, U.S. Air Force, and had as its goal the investigation of the transport by diffusion of the heat energy of chemical binding.

Considering the high cost of the F-108 system -- over $4 billion for the force that had been planned -- and the time period in which it would become operational, it was decided to stop further work on the project.

This project was started at a time when there was a critical need for a high-energy fuel to provide an extra margin of range for high performance aircraft, particularly our heavy bombers.

A project for the Air Force has been completed in which the NAIR infrared detecting device was developed for area monitoring of noxious or dangerous gases.

In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

Francesca and Grazie were habitual committee chairmen and they usually managed to be elected co-chairmen, equal bosses, of whatever PTA or civic project was being launched.

The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

The corporation was formed by the Reynolds Metal Co. and the Samuel A. and Henry A. Berger firm, a Philadelphia builder, for work in the project.

Fiedler was then technical director of Hitler's super-secret `` Reichenberg project '', which remained unknown to the Allies until after the war.

A crack corps of 50 pilots was formed from the ranks of volunteers, but the project was halted before the end of the war, and the missiles later fell into Allied hands.

The AID committee's chairman in charge of the redecoration, Mrs. Henry Francis Lenygon, was in town yesterday to consult with White House staff members on the project.

allied to them was Gerry, devoting much time to swaying her father, and Joan dismissed all thought of the project and William was unwilling to interfere further.

** Atlas Carver, a South African military jet development project that was cancelled in the 1990s

Instead, the irrigated agriculture project was headed for completion with apparently no prospects for extension beyond 2011.

The project was still pending completion as of Mar 2011.

The first division into major and minor arts dates back to Leon Battista Alberti's works ( De re aedificatoria, De statua, De pictura ), focusing the importance of intellectual skills of the artist rather than the manual skills ( even if in other forms of art there was a project behind ).

Construction of this machine was never completed ; Babbage had conflicts with his chief engineer, Joseph Clement, and ultimately the British government withdrew its funding for the project.

During this project he realized that a much more general design, the Analytical Engine, was possible.

Another project was launched in the same year, which aims to link Burundi and Rwanda ( which also has no railways ) to the DRC and Zambia, and therefore to the rest of Southern Africa.

* 2001: The Vikipedio project ( Esperanto Wikipedia ) is launched, resulting in the first general encyclopedia written in a constructed language.

In October 2006 the SuperJanet5 project was launched after £ 29 million of investment.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

Nancy Reagan launched the " Just Say No " drug awareness campaign in 1982, which was her primary project and major initiative as first lady.

However, a project was launched internally to evaluate the looming competitive situation with Microsoft Windows 95, the major code quality issues in the existing OS / 2 product ( resulting in over 20 service packs, each requiring more diskettes than the original installation ), and the ineffective and heavily matrixed development organization in Boca Raton and Austin.

Following the war, the city launched a clean air and civic revitalization project known as the " Renaissance.

The Harvard University Herbaria and the Australian National Herbarium co-operate with Kew in the IPNI database, a project which was launched in 1999 to produce an authoritative source of information on botanical nomenclature including publication details.

The Plant List is an Internet encyclopedia project which was launched in 2010 to compile a comprehensive list of botanical nomenclature.

In a government-led initiative to connect the island in a high-speed broadband network using various mediums such as fibre, DSL and cable, the Singapore ONE project was formally announced in June 1996, and commercially launched in June 1998.

In 1979 the University of California, Berkeley launched a SETI project named " Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations ( SERENDIP )".

SETI @ home was conceived by David Gedye along with Craig Kasnoff and is a popular volunteer distributed computing project that was launched by the University of California, Berkeley in May 1999.

A Kickstarter project has been launched to fund the development of this new game or SpaceVenture, which will also feature the voice of Gary Owens, narrator of Space Quest IV and 6.

Lately the Stiftsbibliothek has launched a project for the digitisation of the priceless manuscript collection, which currently ( December 2009 ) contains 355 documents that are available on the Codices Electronici Sangallenses webpage.

The government had launched in 2010 the " Skopje 2014 " project which aims to give a more monumental appearance to the capital.

The " e-Taiwan " project launched by the government seeks to use US $ 1. 83 billion to improve the information and communications infrastructure in Taiwan in five major areas: government, life, business, transport, and broadband.

The playtest open-beta phase effectively ended on May 31, 2012, when Miller launched a Traveller 5th Edition Kickstarter project.

Following the success of that album, The Residents launched their weekly Timmy video project on YouTube.

In 2011 a new project of cruise turnarounds was launched in cooperation with Tallinn Passenger Port and Happy Cruises.

Desertec is an energy project launched in Munich in 2009, consisting on the use of solar and wind technology in the Sahara desert, with the aim to provide that energy generated to African and European countries.

After Amstrad bought the computer business of Sinclair Research, Sir Clive retained the rights to the Pandora project, and it evolved into the Cambridge Computer Z88, launched in 1987.

** In the TV series Quantum Leap ( 1988 – 1993 ), the Quantum Leap project is said to be launched in New Mexico, in 1999.

In 2007, the World Community Grid launched the Discovering Dengue Drugs – Together project.

After World War II in Germany a project, Fundmünzen der Antike ( Coin finds of the Classical Period ) was launched, to register every coin found within Germany.