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...this because of one campaign fundraising official? It may not be as far-fetched as it sounds. For behind Berlandi--and it seems reasonable to conclude, behind Weld--is Berlandi's employer, the San Francisco-based Bechtel Corporation...
Berlandi is Bechtel's consultant for the Central Artery project, a massive, federally subsidized highway construction project in Boston that is currently the largest public works undertaking in the country. (The Central Artery may yet prove to be one of the nation's largest public works boon-doggles. To date, it is six years behind schedule and roughly $2 billion over budget, with no immediate end in sight...
Founded in 1906, Bechtel quickly rose to the top ranks of American engineering contractors. The company's early and lasting prominence in the development of energy and transportation infrastructures was both the cause and the effect of a special, privileged relationship it has maintained with the nation's political leaders...
...Rick Bechtel, the architect who oversaw the project for the Cambridge firm Graham Gund, said he thought the distinction simply reflected the magazien editors' individual tastes...
...Bechtel said the damning publicity doesn't worry him. "I guess they'vegot to choose a best and worst, and they chose[the Inn]," he said. "We've received lots ofpositive comments about...