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...acronym, by some insiders - is also running well over budget even as the aerospace giant has had to scale back some promised new capabilities, officials said. That's led some U.S. officials to charge that Boeing had underbid in an aggressive effort to win the contract. "They wanted it bad, and now they're doing it badly," said one. A Boeing spokesperson declined comment. An official at the National Reconaissance Office, which is responsible for building and keeping spy satellites in the air, insisted that, "over the years, amazingly enough, the reconaissance satellites have lasted longer than their design lives...
...this war’s wake, the Bush administration has planned to contract Iraq’s rebuilding to private, exclusively American corporations—including a subsidiary of Vice President Dick Cheney’s very own Halliburton. Experienced non-profit and international organizations will largely be bypassed. Judging on how it has reneged on most of its commitments to liberated Afghanistan, the U.S.’s pledge to fund Iraq’s rebuilding and help alleviate its current humanitarian crisis is dubious at best. We should not let ourselves be duped again by public-relations farces...
Touborg said the University is in compliance with its contract and is trying to create more full-time positions...
...remains committed to converting part-time positions to full-time positions on an attrition basis in accordance with the terms of the collective bargaining agreement,” she wrote in an e-mail. “Harvard will strive to achieve that goal during the life of that contract...
...decreased food service demands during the summer, other departments at Harvard have historically taken on dining hall workers, Childs said, but those opportunities have been scaled back—an action which he said runs contrary to HERE’s contract agreement...