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  • Macmahon, which is currently completing Stage One of the project, will work with SKM to start the Stage Two detailed design process immediately.

    WA Business News - Latest News 2008

  • In Sydney, engineering firm Macmahon Holdings took a 21% dive after issuing a profit warning, saying its construction business experienced delays and cost blowouts on a Western Australia state-rail contract and won less work than expected.

    Asia Shares End Higher as Rare-Earth Plays Climb Shri Navaratnam 2010

  • He could only mean Macmahon (who'd never been near me in the bloody Legion, but that's gossip for you), and as I sat rooted and mute at all this appalling news, which had whisked me in a twinkling from the heights of hope to the depths of despair, it struck me that there had been some marvellous secret confabulating in high places lately, hadn't there just?

    Watershed 2010

  • Of course I agreed straight off, in my best toady-manly style; I'd never have dared say no to Grant at any time, and I wouldn't have missed watching him and Macmahon in a state of mutual bewilderment for all the tea in China.

    Watershed 2010

  • They glowered at each other, and bowed, and glowered some more before shaking hands, with Sam plainly ready to leap away at the first hint of an embrace, after which silence fell, and I was just wondering if I should tell Macmahon that Grant was stricken speechless by the warmth of his welcome when Madame Macmahon, God bless her, inquired in English if we'd had a good crossing.

    Watershed 2010

  • The authority for Grant's meeting with Macmahon, and their total failure to communicate, is Grant himself.

    Watershed 2010

  • I didn't suspect it, but this was Blowitz at work, taking advantage of my meeting with old Macmahon to serve ends of his own.

    Watershed 2010

  • She was still a charmer at sixty, and Sam was so captivated in relief that he absolutely talked to her, which left old Macmahon standing like a blank file.

    Watershed 2010

  • Well, I'm about to tell you - and I'm not sure that Bismarck's mania (for that's what it amounted to) wasn't the strangest part of the adventure that befell me five years later, and which had its origins in my meetings with Grant and Macmahon, Caprice's picture, and the Congress of Berlin. '

    Watershed 2010

  • I assure her I had no intention to tell l — s — well, let us say monosyllables — about my superiors: and I wish her nothing but well, and when Macmahon (or shall it be Mulligan?)

    Roundabout Papers 2006

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