Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After finalizing the contract with NES todevelop the exam one year ago, Commissioner ofEducation Robert Antonucci resigned his post twomonths before the initial April 4 tests...
Ford purchasing boss Hans-Peter Kunze says his company intends to work even more closely with suppliers in the future. That will mean assigning more and more work to a smaller number of systems partners, who will in turn contract the work with more outsiders. As a result, the number of suppliers dealing directly with Ford is expected to continue dropping. "For the Escort, we worked with about 700 suppliers directly, and for the new Focus it's only 210," he says, talking about Ford's European models. "For the car we're planning as a replacement for the Fiesta...
When singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke was released from her contract with MCA last year, she didn't fret--she went online. Her engaging new CD, Jonatha Brooke Live, is available for mail-order purchase exclusively at Brooke's website www.jonathabrooke.com) which also features audio clips of her work. On Feb. 5, when the electronica group Underworld offered a free, full-length MP3 file of a track from its forthcoming CD, its Web page received 400,000 hits in one day--an impressive showing for an only modestly famous musical act. And last year the Artist Formerly Known as Prince...
When architectural firms began to compete for the Gap Inc. office complex in San Bruno, Calif., William McDonough saw it as a competition of ideas rather than for a contract. "Our idea," he says, "was that if a bird flew over the building, it would not know that anything had changed." If that sounds like pure eco-nut talk (I almost resist noting that McDonough is for the birds), try the question he puts to potential clients when he undertakes any of his architectural projects: "I ask, 'How do we love all children, all species, all time...
...Ballard and two younger partners, engineer Paul Howard and electrochemist Keith Prater, changed course, winning a contract from the Canadian military to research a more exotic form of power. Fuel cells had been around for 150 years and were used in the Gemini space program but were thought to be too expensive for any practical use. As Ballard's team began to make the cells lighter, smaller and thus cheaper, it realized that the technology could eventually be used in vehicles...