21.   In the meantime, Coltabaco has combated the problem by diversifying, buying up chunks of banks, insurance companies and construction firms.

22.   Italian-Thai Development Plc, the largest domestic construction firm said it is delaying the start of construction on a massive dam in Laos.

23.   Last February, he accused Yeltsin and his daughters of taking bribes from a Swiss construction firm called Mabatex that had won lucrative contracts to renovate the Kremlin.

24.   Later, after he left his company, he joined another construction engineering firm.

25.   Mas, too, is a millionaire, and is the chairman of MasTec Inc., a telecommunications engineering and construction firm.

26.   McCormack got interested in custom travel excursions as a former executive for Bechtel Group Inc., the worldwide engineering and construction firm.

27.   Most laborers communicate primarily with a crew chief from their own country, who is, in turn, a subcontractor to a German construction firm.

28.   Once the elder bin Laden had saved enough to go into business for himself, he founded a construction firm and started modestly with small jobs.

29.   Other construction firms complained they were not given an opportunity to offer their own proposals.

30.   Prosecutors have said Kim Hong-up will be summoned to answer questions about payoffs from a construction firm.