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...weeks tick on, I continue to be worried that the whole schedule might get off. We'd have to engage a contractor pretty soon, if we want him for May," says Illingworth...
...policy that's paying off. The space station's prime contractor is Boeing, with offices in Seattle, Houston and Huntsville, Ala. In recent years, however, NASA has distributed the goodies to 67 other prime contractors and 35 major subcontractors in 22 states. Much of the most important work is being done on the home turf of some of Washington's key lawmakers. Boeing's Huntington Beach, Calif., facility, for example, is located in the district of Republican Dana Rohrabacher, chairman of the Space and Aeronautics subcommittee. The Alabama district of Democrat Robert Cramer Jr., of the VA, HUD and Independent...
...building is in serious disrepair, and the College has hired an independent contractor to conduct a safety inspection...
...contractor identifies hazards that would cost a large amount of money to repair, Illingworth said the College would close the building next year--shutting the Pudding building down for two years and leaving all the construction for a single period of renovation...
Republican legislators in Washington apparently keep one eye on their defense-contractor sponsors and the other on the heavens. Your story on the U.S. proposal to build a missile-defense system similar to the one proposed by Ronald Reagan [WORLD, May 8] is grand election-year theater, but isn't it more likely that threats from rogue nations will come in the form of terrorist acts inside the U.S.? Wouldn't that be simpler and more cost effective for foreign enemies than building exotic missiles? A thorough look around, rather than techno-stargazing, would make the most sense. DON GLASCOCK...