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...larger budget reduction plan and that the decision to close the Café was made in conjunction with various administrators and Harvard University Dining Services. The Widener Café has been staffed by HUDS for less than two years, though the University previously hired a private contractor to provide staffed food services, Brainard said. The Penthouse Coffee Bar, a featured component of the Student Organization Center at Hilles, debuted in 2006 as part of the University’s efforts to enhance social space at Harvard. But the eatery has been historically underutilized despite College administrators’ hopes that...
While Rose only served as a tax director for a year at HMC before resigning, he previously helped prepare the company’s taxes for ten years as an independent contractor. Although he had never noticed any suspect activity at HMC before—he said he was simply given data from which to produce returns—his new position’s oversight and personnel access provided him with information that gradually coalesced into broader—and more disturbing—insights into the company’s complex network of operations...
...like with the domestic stimulus, at some level it is possible to point to nearly any unwanted spending and declare it to be waste. Looked at more dispassionately, what is referred to as “waste” simply boils down to a disagreement between the government and contractor on how the contract or requirements are interpreted...
...Local contractor Wayne Mayo, 54, has watched this long slump up close. Like many other people in St. Helens, he used to work in the timber industry, as a lumber broker. But his more recent turn, as a general contractor, brought him face-to-face with an economic force he felt he could influence: illegal immigration. Although St. Helens has a relatively small Hispanic community - some legal, some illegal - the town is just 30 miles (about 50 km) from major population centers like Portland and Beaverton, close enough that out-of-town contractors with crews of underpaid, underdocumented construction workers...
...Allston Library. Project manager Dennis Swinford presented the current concept designs and said that the Boston Redevelopment Authority had hired landscaping firm Michael Van Valkenburg Associates to develop construction documents, which should be available by the year’s end. [SEE CORRECTIONS BELOW] He said that while a contractor for construction has not yet been hired, construction should begin next spring...