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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/korman/070717.asp" title="The word from a couple of different sources is that Germany\'s Hochtief AG, which owns Turner Corp., may be deepening its U.S. investment by negotiating to buy Flatiron Construction Corp...." target="_self">Will Hochtief Buy Flatiron?</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on July 18, 2007 11:32:27 am</span><br />');
document.write('The word from a couple of different sources is that Germany\'s Hochtief AG, which owns Turner Corp., may be deepening its U.S. investment by negotiating to buy Flatiron Construction Corp....');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/korman/070703.asp" title="If you are working behind a drafting table for $60,000 a year, you may want to turn your head away and not read this...." target="_self">Two Outlandish June Pay Days for Foster Wheeler\'s CEO</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on July 03, 2007 03:40:11 pm</span><br />');
document.write('If you are working behind a drafting table for $60,000 a year, you may want to turn your head away and not read this....');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/korman/070611.asp" title="The deals never seem to end.  The managers of Hillier Architecture, the big Princeton, N.J.-based design practice, have decided to sell the company, sources have told ENR?s Debra Rubin. The company, which declines to confirm the possible sale, has been on..." target="_self">Is Hillier the Next Big Sale? Plus More About AECOM and URS</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on June 11, 2007 01:11:05 pm</span><br />');
document.write('The deals never seem to end.  The managers of Hillier Architecture, the big Princeton, N.J.-based design practice, have decided to sell the company, sources have told ENR?s Debra Rubin. The company, w...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/korman/070607.asp" title="There?s only one reason not to build the 700-mile-long barrier that is an integral feature of the new immigration legislation being hammered out in the Senate...." target="_self">Don\'t Build The Mexico Border Wall</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on June 07, 2007 01:57:31 pm</span><br />');
document.write('There?s only one reason not to build the 700-mile-long barrier that is an integral feature of the new immigration legislation being hammered out in the Senate....');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/korman/070524.asp" title="What Susan wants, she usually gets.  For weeks leading up to our trip to Arizona, my girlfriend Susan wanted to know why we couldn\'t go visit the Skywalk, the glass-bottomed walkway, while we stayed at the Grand Canyon. The Skywalk had received a lot of ..." target="_self">Forget the Skywalk, the Canyon has Grand Buildings</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on May 24, 2007 10:32:08 am</span><br />');
document.write('What Susan wants, she usually gets.  For weeks leading up to our trip to Arizona, my girlfriend Susan wanted to know why we couldn\'t go visit the Skywalk, the glass-bottomed walkway, while we stayed a...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/korman/070419.asp" title="I met Martin M. Koffel, the chairman and chief executive of URS Corp., briefly many years ago, at URS Corp.\'s Manhattan offices, and I saw him on television once since then...." target="_self">URS Protects CEO Martin M. Koffel--and Convinces Him to Stay</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on April 19, 2007 04:50:03 pm</span><br />');
document.write('I met Martin M. Koffel, the chairman and chief executive of URS Corp., briefly many years ago, at URS Corp.\'s Manhattan offices, and I saw him on television once since then....');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/korman/070406.asp" title="Our video aggregator, Clip Syndicate, pulled in a story about cranes coming down on a big Texas Department of Transportation project in the San Antonio area near the airport early on the morning of April 1st...." target="_self">Wipeouts and Cranes Down</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on April 06, 2007 01:23:16 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Our video aggregator, Clip Syndicate, pulled in a story about cranes coming down on a big Texas Department of Transportation project in the San Antonio area near the airport early on the morning of Ap...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.enr.com/people/blogs/korman/070316.asp" title="We have a colleague here at ENR who used to work for Guy F. Atkinson, the big contractor that keeled over suddenly in 1997. Cost him plenty. He\'s still not over it...." target="_self">Wipeouts</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on March 16, 2007 11:10:18 am</span><br />');
document.write('We have a colleague here at ENR who used to work for Guy F. Atkinson, the big contractor that keeled over suddenly in 1997. Cost him plenty. He\'s still not over it....');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.enr.com/people/blogs/korman/070223.asp" title="Look at this video of a fallen crawler crane with a reported 350-ft-long boom wrapped around a building belonging to a utility in Port Sheldon, Mich. Winds were blowing hard, reports Rick Raef, Willis\' eagle-eyed email safety blogger...." target="_self">Cranes, Bricks, Everything Falling Down on the Job</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on February 23, 2007 03:27:11 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Look at this video of a fallen crawler crane with a reported 350-ft-long boom wrapped around a building belonging to a utility in Port Sheldon, Mich. Winds were blowing hard, reports Rick Raef, Willis...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.enr.com/people/blogs/korman/070116.asp" title="No-bid contracts. All those fat federal contracts awarded to corporate executives who have their snouts buried deep in the feeding public works trough. Disgusting, right?..." target="_self">As Reforms Are Made, Beware \'No-bid\' Nonsense</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on January 16, 2007 02:56:15 pm</span><br />');
document.write('No-bid contracts. All those fat federal contracts awarded to corporate executives who have their snouts buried deep in the feeding public works trough. Disgusting, right?...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.enr.com/people/blogs/korman/070101.asp" title="Is there a locomotive pounding down the tracks and heading straight for you?  When one company is writing $1 billion to $2 billion dollars or so of annual surety premiums, providing guarantees for as much as a couple hundred billion dollars worth of const..." target="_self">What if the 800-lb Gorilla of Surety Bonds Cuts Back?</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on January 02, 2007 02:37:17 am</span><br />');
document.write('Is there a locomotive pounding down the tracks and heading straight for you?  When one company is writing $1 billion to $2 billion dollars or so of annual surety premiums, providing guarantees for as ...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.enr.com/people/blogs/korman/061128.asp" title="At a holiday party the other week I ended up talking to my girlfriend\'s sister\'s father-in-law, a retired architect, a lanky man with waves of distinguished white hair and black-framed glasses. I was trying to demonstrate some competence on the subject ..." target="_self">Technophobe Young Architects and Chicken Parmesan</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on November 28, 2006 04:17:25 pm</span><br />');
document.write('At a holiday party the other week I ended up talking to my girlfriend\'s sister\'s father-in-law, a retired architect, a lanky man with waves of distinguished white hair and black-framed glasses. I was ...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.enr.com/people/blogs/korman/061116.asp" title="Construction contractors are deeply conservative and Republican and in 2000 members of the Associated Builders & Contractors felt like they had helped put George W. Bush in the White House. At ABC\'s national convention in New Orleans early in 2002?not lo..." target="_self">Alienated Conservatives and ABC</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on November 17, 2006 01:27:01 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Construction contractors are deeply conservative and Republican and in 2000 members of the Associated Builders & Contractors felt like they had helped put George W. Bush in the White House. At ABC\'s n...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.enr.com/people/blogs/korman/061103.asp" title="Don\'t get yourself killed without company if you want me to write about you on ENR.com.  If you are taking a 17-story plunge on your own, as a 25-year-old immigrant from Ecuador did in New York City the other day, I\'m not your guy. ..." target="_self">One Death Isn\'t News To Me</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on November 03, 2006 03:31:24 pm</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.enr.com/people/blogs/korman/061003.asp" title="If you see something unsafe and verging on collapse, aren\'t you obligated by your ties to society to try to stop it?  Here\'s what I\'m getting at.  A few days ago I asked PSBJ Corp., the big Florida-based engineer, if the three former employees who had ..." target="_self">PBSJ\'s Politics: What the Accusations Mean to Me</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on October 04, 2006 01:12:17 pm</span><br />');
document.write('If you see something unsafe and verging on collapse, aren\'t you obligated by your ties to society to try to stop it?  Here\'s what I\'m getting at.  A few days ago I asked PSBJ Corp., the big Florida-ba...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/korman/060907.asp" title="I love the American Society of Civil Engineers\' journals, especially the ones concerned with management and leadership. Although some of the articles are limited academic explorations, some contain fresh ideas...." target="_self">Engineering Sociopath and Simplified Ethics</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on October 04, 2006 01:12:07 pm</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.enr.com/people/blogs/korman/060922.asp" title="I?ll get to the point. Many contractor foremen don?t know squat about how to manage or work with people...." target="_self">Foremen Who Don\'t Know How to Manage</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on October 04, 2006 01:12:03 pm</span><br />');
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