1.   Instead, it benefits big business, contractors, consultancies, construction firms, government officials, international experts and academics.

2.   And brokerages, life insurers, major construction firms and other lenders are in similar straits.

3.   Banks lent trillions of yen to property developers, construction firms and other businesses -- all of it tied to land.

4.   -- Open new markets for U.S. architects, engineers and construction firms.

5.   A crane donated by a local construction firm was being used to lift the heavy slabs from the top of the rubble mountain of the Ufundi Co-op Building.

6.   After football, Walker was a sales executive with an electrical construction firm and then founded Walker Chemicals in Denver, a company he sold upon retirement.

7.   But he grew restless quickly and decided to start a construction firm with two partners.

8.   Construction firms and finance companies were undermined by concerns about surging interest rates and spreading corporate defaults.

9.   Construction firms and service companies were among those adding jobs.

10.   Construction firms want to build highways, ports and airports for a nation that lacks the most basic infrastructure.