41.   He added that the state does not have enough money to foot the bill for the entire building project.

42.   He has issued an executive order ending the preference that unionized companies had in many federally financed building projects.

43.   He noted that Netanyahu initiated the Har Homa building project on disputed land outside Jerusalem three weeks after he signed the Hebron Protocol, a previous interim agreement.

44.   Higher borrowing costs might discourage companies from resuming their building projects, which would hurt earnings at companies like Situr, a real estate developer.

45.   Higher interest rates could also discourage companies from resuming or initiating new building projects.

46.   Higher interest rates in Mexico might prevent companies from resuming their building projects.

47.   High interest rates that make it more expensive for companies to borrow and delays in government building projects have hurt demand for cement.

48.   Huang measures building projects by square meters of floor space, rather than by the number of structures.

49.   Holzmann said up to one-fourth of its building projects were blocked in the first three months of the year because of bad weather.

50.   If more developers lose large investments in such properties, others may be deterred from building substandard projects.