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...launched an ambitious program to upgrade its computer systems, including computerized fingerprint scanners installed in police cars across the country. If that goal is ever realized, it will be four years late and double the cost projected. The upgrade effort is already such a mess, plagued by contractor and design lapses, that Congress refuses to fund it anymore. But Freeh maintains an ambitious vision: to build a whole new technological infrastructure to track global crime. "We have people with laptop computers in Russia moving money out of Citibank accounts in New York City, and people with laptops in Sweden shutting...
...bend large aircraft parts, could also be used to boost Chinese arms capability. Apparently, they were right: Recently released satellite photos show that even while the sale was being negotiated, the Chinese government was building a plant to house the equipment at the Nanchang Aircraft Company, a military contractor. In the end, economic considerations overrode national security ones, Admiral Bill Center told The New York Times, which first published the report: "All of us concluded that if McDonnell Douglas didn't sell it, others would, and we wouldn't accomplish anything by saying...
...same time, many custodial contracts at Harvard have been awarded to outisde contractor UNICCO Service...
...rather Rockwellian construction worker asked if the children wanted to write their names in a just-poured cement sidewalk. "The man said I could, so I did," said Jeremy. He and his friends then wrote their names and made hand- and footprints. A few weeks later, the job's contractor contacted Jeremy's mother and told her she owed $11,000 because the company would have to redo the sidewalk. She refused, and forgot about the incident. But on January 28, little Jeremy didn't come home from school. He had been charged by police with a felony, malicious destruction...
UNICCO custodians began cleaning Quincy and Cabot Houses on Feb.1, the same day that Acme Building Services Inc. took over custodial work in Lamont and Pusey Libraries. The Loeb Drama Center is also being cleaned by an outside contractor...