Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Contractor Henry B. Zachry borrowed the basic idea for his instant-construction technique from Expo 67's Habitat, a twelve-story Montreal housing complex built of prefabricated concrete apartments piled up like children's blocks. The method promises to cut construction time on Zachry's $10 million, 445-room hotel from a normal twelve months to eight. And only by such a speedup could the hotel be completed in time for the April opening of San Antonio's HemisFair '68, of which Zachry is chairman. Though he estimates that so far the technique itself...
...have a choice as to how they will collect. They may insist, as the American Medical Association and other doctors' organizations recommend, on billing the patient directly for whatever charge they judge proper. The patient must then pay the bill, get it receipted, and send it to a contractor (it may be Blue Shield or an insurance company), which is acting as the Government's middleman for the area. When the contractor is satisfied that the claim is legitimate, it refunds the patient 80% of what is locally considered a reasonable fee. If the doctor's bill...
Kaiser was quietly proud that he was successful in spite of being a high-school dropout. He left school in upstate New York at 13 to help support the family. Henry worked his way West, signed on with a paving contractor, established his own company at 32, and lined up his first contract-for two miles of street in Vancouver. Because speed was worth money, he always made it a point to finish jobs ahead of time; on a California paving contract he laid a mile a week instead of the usual two miles a month, was constantly visited...
...nothing. In Thailand, the wise businessman bidding on a government contract might end his visit to a government official by letting a well-filled wallet slip to the floor and exclaiming: "Why, you've dropped your wallet with 50,000 bahts [$2,400] in it!" One foreign contractor who did just that was dumfounded when the Thai official calmly replied, "Oh, no, I dropped my wallet with 150,000 bahts...
Since Stewart became the Architect in 1954, more than $250 million has been spent or authorized for Capitol Hill construction. And yet he admits that it was done piecemeal without a comprehensive master plan. Under Stewart, who is not an architect but has had some experience as a landscape contractor, the East Front of the Capitol was extended, the Rayburn House Office Building was built, remodeling was undertaken, and parking garages were built. Currently plans amounting to $109 million have been approved for an extension of the Capitol's West Front and for a third Library of Congress annex...