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  Yoichi 1934– Shimogaichi - SAW THE PROMISE OF STEEL, CHALLENGED AS PRESIDENT OF NKK STEEL
Career: NKK Corporation, 1958–1981, various positions; 1981–1986, general manager of sales coordination in export and corporate planning departments; 1987–1989, general manager of corporate planning department; 1989–1991, managing director; 1991–1994, senior managing director, deputy director of steel division; 1994–1997, executive vice president, executive director of steel division; 1997–2002, president; JFE Holdings, 2002–, president.
Shimogaichi was also attracted to the company because of its location; he had hoped to find a job near his hometown of Tokyo, and NKK was headquartered in nearby Kawasaki.
In investing heavily in research and development, JFE Steel relied on new technologies and new techniques to develop types of steel that would be highly valued by automakers and other manufacturers.
www.referenceforbusiness.com /biography/S-Z/Shimogaichi-Yoichi-1934.html   (1654 words)

  
 The Main Street WIRE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Edward J. Logue, the urban planner whose dream of affordable housing for all catalyzed the transformation of Welfare Island to Roosevelt Island, died January 27 in West Tisbury, Massachusetts.
Logue was President of the New York State Urban Development Corporation from 1968 to 1975.
His eight years at UDC were controversial and he was sometimes compared to Robert Moses, the builder and planner who was often accused of creating great projects without sensitivity to community needs.
nyc10044.com /wire/2011/loguobit.html   (383 words)

  
 City Government & Urban Development
The Institute conducts research into processes of urban and regional growth and decline, and effects of governing policies on the patterns and processes of urban and regional growth and decline.
Studies examine the underlying forces shaping California's future, cutting across a wide range of public policy concerns: the California economy, education, employment and income, immigration, infrastructure and urban growth, poverty and welfare, state and local finance, and the well-being of children and families.
ADB is a multilateral development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific.
guides.library.fullerton.edu /docslinks/citygovernment.htm   (2385 words)

  
 Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), former U.S. government agency, created in 1932 by the administration of Herbert Hoover.
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the gold standard, and the banking panic of 1933.
The environmental impacts of international finance corporation lending and proposals for reform: a case study of conservation and......
www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0841310.html   (465 words)

  
 Eclectic Elements - Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Architecturals.net is a subsidiary of Urban Development Corporation.
Committed to fighting the war against urban decay, our contribution to this struggle is made by purchasing distressed property in low-income neighborhoods for the purposes of rehabilitation and resale.
Develop International Mahjong to become a worldwide game of mahjong played by one common set of standardized rules, thus allowing games to be organized and participated by people around the world, and records of scores and worldwide ranking of players to be centrally maintained and internationally recognized.
www.eclectic-elements.com /links.cfm   (1161 words)

  
 MANCHESTER BIBLIOGRAPHY 2001
Deas, I., Robson, B. and Bradford, M. Re-thinking the Urban Development Corporation 'experiment': The case of Central Manchester, Leeds and Bristol Progress in Planning, 54 No.1 (2000).
Rugg, J. Nonconformity and the development of early cemeteries in England, 1820-1850 Journal of the United Reformed Church History 6 No. 5 (1999) 309-21.
Rugg, J. Ownership of the place of burial: A study of early nineteenth-century urban conflict in Britain, in R. Morris and R. Trainor (eds), Urban governance: Britain and beyond since 1750 Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.
www.mcrh.mmu.ac.uk /pubs/bibliog.htm   (7987 words)

  
 Library Listing - Neighborhood Preservation Center
Washington,D.C. Department of Housing and Urban Development, [1975?].
Developed as part of the Conservation Conference held in New York city September 24-26, 1975.New York : The Whitney Library of Design, 1975.
Valentine’s Manuals: A General Index to the Manuals of the Corporation of the City of New York 1841-1870.
npclibrary.org /library_listing.htm   (5086 words)

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