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...steel gate or some other barrier been installed to protect the approach to the building, the terrorist attack would probably not have been successful. The report adds that the relocation of the embassy headquarters from Muslim West Beirut to Christian East Beirut was progressing slowly and that the contractor hired to build a gate was preoccupied with other projects. The embassy staff apparently did not put enough pressure on the contractor to get to work on the gate...
According to the D.A.'s office, Masselli moved aggressively to take over the subcontracts from Nargi's old company. U.S. law requires that any contractor receiving a federal public works grant must award 10% of the business to minority-owned companies. Since some 80% of Schiavone's $186 million contract to extend a subway under the East River was federally financed, the Schiavone company needed to find a so-called MBE (Minority Business Enterprise) to do part of the work. Thus Masselli set up the Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Co. and claimed that at least...
Martel, a strategic modelist with a defense contractor called Systems Research Applications (SRA) of Arlington, Va., collaborated with Lt. Col. Ret. Paul Savage, a professor of Political Science at St. Anselm's College, on the model...
...outrageous "clues" the plot offers Krabbe's magnificent portrayal of a very un-straight obsession keeps the character from being an imbecile, even given the vacuous tackiness of Herman, Christine's lover and his object of lust. Herman turns out to be a German plumbing contractor who not only looks, but sounds, like a talking centerfold...
Lockheed. The big defense contractor flew into trouble as the 1970s began because of development outlays for its Tri-Star jumbojet, which never made money and is now out of production, and vast cost overruns on the giant C-5A military cargo carrier. In 1971 the Senate, by a one-vote majority, approved $250 million in now expired loan guarantees. Last year Chairman Roy Anderson was able to report that booming military business had helped Lockheed achieve record profits of $263 million...