If we build productive facilities that enable clients to be more competitive, they ll be satisfied with our services and will hire us again and recommend us to others. We convince all of our employees that serving the client and making him more competitive is our number one objective. We do that by integrating our services, shortening time schedules to complete projects, and accelerating turnaround schedules to get information to owners so they can get appropriations and proceed with various phases of a project. Internally, we have many controls to keep conceptual design, cost estimating, engineering, purchasing, construction and start-up segments of a project on schedule. You mentioned the areas in which The Austin Company has expertise.
T hat changes from year to year.
That slowed down considerably when the price of newsprint began to rise dramatically in 1995. But I see a pent-up demand in the newspaper industry. There are still a lot of old plants that require intensive labor to produce newspapers. This will result in new plant construction, probably this year, next year and the year after. I think that the telecommunications and communications industries, including broadcasting, will soon explode.