Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They had better get those historic stocking stuffers out fast if they want to corner the market. William Bell, 22, a Munster, Ind., car salesman, and his uncle, Paul Wells, 37, a painting contractor from suburban Washington, have set up an import company to send out what they, too, say are nuggets of the famous barricade. According to Wells, Bell was in Berlin last week "chipping away." And along New York City's fashionable Fifth Avenue, two more entrepreneurs, David Schwartz and Edmond Howar, are undercutting the competition with their own purported pieces of the Wall. Price...
...Didier O. Thomas, associate director forproject planning at the Harvard Planning Office,blamed the contractor for the delays...
...would say that although the workmanship isof high quality, the planning and scheduling bythe contractor was not the best," Thomas said,adding that he visited Washington each week for ayear and a half to supervise the work...
...Navy's problems with safety may not all be a matter of preparedness among its crews. TIME has learned that the Naval Investigative Service is looking into whether Scott Aviation, a defense contractor based in Lancaster, N.Y., sold the Navy smoke-protection gear that the company knew did not work as intended. Since 1981 the Navy has purchased more than 450,000 of Scott's Emergency Escape Breathing Devices, hoodlike units that fit over the head and neck to provide breathable air while blocking the entry of toxic fumes. They are now used on virtually all naval vessels except submarines...
...work in Mallinckrodt began yesterday morning and will be completed today, said Henry Brogna, capital project manager for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He said the asbestos removal, done by a private contractor, would cost "less than ten thousand dollars...