51.   Ben Bartolotto, director of the Burbank-based Construction Industry Research Board, said big construction projects continue to make gains on an annual basis.

52.   Beginning this construction project now would needlessly imperil the hard-won resumption of serious bargaining.

53.   Beyond construction projects, Dykstra sees other important trends.

54.   Bouygues said prices on French construction projects continued to fall in the first half, while its earnings from overseas rose.

55.   -- Tackle landscape construction projects you put off all summer.

56.   A budding economic recovery and government spending on major construction projects will mean greater demand for products such as assembly line robots and hydraulic back hoes.

57.   A fenced-off construction project fills the block opposite Boston City Hall, just beyond the statues of James Michael Curley.

58.   A consulting engineer, for example, might have to wrestle between saving a client money on a large construction project and potential long-term environmental consequences for the community.

59.   A fire department spokesmen said the substance was dust from a construction project under way in the building but that it was being tested as an extraordinary precaution.

60.   A few weeks ago, a contractor working on a construction project sliced into one of the mains, forcing the gas company to turn it off.