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  2. <title>
  3. Mar. 27, 1989: Died:Steven Bechtel Sr.
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  5. <history>
  6. TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989               
  7. Mar. 27, 1989  Is Anything Safe?                     
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  10. <source>Time Magazine</source>
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  12. MILESTONES, Page 85      
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  14. <p>    DIED. Stephen Bechtel Sr., 88, president of the Bechtel
  15. Corp. from 1936 until 1960 and director of the worldwide
  16. construction firm's mammoth projects, from the Hoover Dam to a
  17. commercial boiling-water nuclear-power plant in Dresden, Ill.;
  18. in Oakland. Under Bechtel's leadership, the family-owned company
  19. managed West Coast shipyards during World War II and cultivated
  20. a lucrative relationship with the Saudi government, laying the
  21. trans-Arabian pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the
  22. Mediterranean.
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