Konchar

Konchar

 

(from Turkic), an old Russian and Oriental thrust weapon (a sword) with a long, thin three- or four-edged blade (up to 1.5 m) to strike the enemy through chain armor. It was used from the 14th to the 16th century.

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Fort Wayne junior John Konchar (West Chicago) earned Summit League first-team honors a third straight season.
So many college achievements
Another comparison study conducted by Konchar and Sanvido also showed that the effect of DB project delivery methods indicated that the unit cost in DB projects were at least 6.
Design and build: Perception of project owners and contractors on cost in Java, Indonesia
In their informative introductory essay, editors Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr claim that the print culture of second wave feminism was "outrageous, dangerous, and unassimilable.
Changing women's minds
The book club selections contributed to this identification; "Of her first forty-five Book Club books," Cecilia Konchar Farr explains, "thirty-five were by women.
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Mark Konchar, an 18-year industry veteran, has been promoted to Senior Vice President and Bevan Mace, a 15-year industry veteran, has been named Vice President.
Balfour Beatty Construction Promotes Two Internal Leaders
2009; Konchar and Sanvido 1998; Ndekugri and Turner 1994; Songer and Molenaar 1996, 1997; United States Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration 2006; Water Design-Build Council 2009).
Experiences and insights from use of a design-build process in founding a new campus: design-build was the best choice for K-State Olathe because of the flexibility with regard to unknown users and change stakeholder expectations
As the traditional design-bid-build delivery method is inadequate to meet the demands and challenges of the changing world, more and more clients resort to the DB operational variations due to their evident advantages, such as single-point responsibility, shortening time, pushing contractors to upgrade technology (Ndekugri, Turner 1994; Songer, Molenaar 1997; Konchar, Sanvido 1998).
Identification of selection criteria for operational variations of the design-build system: a Delphi study in China/Atrankos kriteriju projektavimo ir statybos sistemos darbiniams variantams nustatymas: Delphi tyrimas Kinijoje
8 (2005): 671-99; Cecilia Konchar Farr, "It Was Chick Lit All.
Chick lit in the undergraduate classroom
2003 and Cecilia Konchar Farr, Reading Oprah: How Oprah's Book Club
Not reading Brick Lane
As documented by Konchar in 1997, a Penn State researcher compared the design-build and design-bid-build project delivery methods (Konchar, 1997).
Using an energy performance based design-build process to procure a large scale replicable zero energy building
The Oprah Affect: Critical Essays on Oprah's Book Club Edited by Cecilia Konchar Farr and Jaime Harker, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2008.
The Oprah Affect: Critical Essays on Oprah's Book Club
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