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Both Russo and Seymour Newburger, engineer estimator at the A.A. Will Corporation, the library's excavation contractor, said yesterday the contractors might have to conduct less blasting than anticipated...
...Richard Russo, the project manager at Bond Brothers Construction Company, the general contractor for excavation work and utilities preparation, said that "I don't think you'll find any of the drilling to be that noisy" because the company has "whisper compressors...
...consumer boycott dragged growers kicking and screaming into the 20th Century. Now, when the UFW's hard-won contracts are up for renewal along come Teamster honchos who, without a word to the workers, sign a ready-made contract with the growers. That Teamster contract reinstitutes the notorious Labor Contractor hiring system, reduces the workers' already minimal pay, imposes no restrictions on the use of man-killing pesticides and leaves the workers without any effective medical benefits. There are other cruel inadequacies in the Teamsters' sweetheart contract, but that should be enough to make you lose your taste for grapes...
Meanwhile, Richardson had helped to bring Anderson into the Royal Court theater. Over the years Anderson has also made a reputation as an unflashy, deeply sensitive stage director, notably with productions of several plays by Storey, including The Contractor, Home, and The Changing Room-low-keyed, subtly poetic accounts of seemingly mundane lives...
...coupled with the greater availability of federal funds, has contributed to a climate in which ambitious blacks can aspire to owning their own businesses. Typical of the new entrepreneurs is Electronics Engineer George G. Rock of Manhattan. Until last year, he was a high-paid employee of a defense contractor. When the firm developed an airborne alarm device to prevent collisions between planes, Rock acquired the rights to the device in return for a promise of royalties. With $173,000, part of it lent through a Government program, he opened Rock Avionic Systems, which will market the device...