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...Genoese selection was a mistake -- one that he is unlikely to repeat, he says, thanks to an "ethical review committee" he launched last month. The committee will operate separately from the review board, and an outside firm will handle much of its work, including union background checks. The independent contractor will be Decision Strategies, a firm run by Bart Schwartz, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney who Carey says has an "untouchable" reputation. "((Schwartz)) is now the investigative arm of the Teamsters," boasts Carey...
...gurney that would henceforth be used for lethal injections. Two inmate welders balked; then 375 convicts joined their "work buck." Confronted by every warden's worst nightmare -- a prisoner rebellion -- Whitley did the unthinkable: he backed down. He publicly called the idea a bad one and said a private contractor would build the table instead. "He admitted he was wrong," says lifer Patrick DeVille. "Wardens just don't do that...
...trucks owned by a fencing contractor working for Harvard were set ablaze by vandals early yesterday morning, according to Harvard Police...
After considerable searching, the panel admitted, it had found no American contractor that would agree to accept the revised specs. To save face for Angelenos, the new contract includes a Sumitomo commitment to ship cars from its Nagoya factory to Los Angeles in partly completed condition -- thus creating 79 assembly jobs in Los Angeles -- and to spend 60% of the contract's value...
HURRICANE ANDREW MAY HAVE BEEN THE MOST costly natural disaster in U.S. history, but it has triggered a modern American gold rush. Carpenters and contractors from as far away as Alaska are heading south to Florida to mine a $20 billion bonanza in reconstruction and cleanup work. "I traded in my high heels for steel toes ((construction shoes)) and headed down here a few days after the storm," said Roberta Heiberg, an estimator for an Arlington, Virginia, contracting firm. She got a Florida contractor's license in one day, advertised with a sign in her Holiday Inn window and made...