Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...North Cambridge Vietnam Committee last night completed plans for a demonstration to be held today against the second largest defense contractor in Cambridge, Bolt, Beranek and Newman. Inc. (BBN). Demonstrators will gather at 4 p.m. opposite the Fresh Fond shopping center and march to the firm's headquarters at 50 Moulton...
More and more city officials are discovering that it can cost some 15% less to hire a private garbage contractor than to run their own frequently featherbedded sanitation system. The city of Middletown, Ohio, for example, recently signed a threeyear, $1,000,000 contract with a private collection firm that will save the city an estimated $350,000. This week, for the first time in its history, Chicago will have a private firm process some of its refuse; Waste Management, Inc., will compact and dump into its own landfill up to 1,000 tons of garbage a day. Other cities...
Even before the last bodies were found, police arrested Juan Corona, 37, a Mexican farm-labor contractor who was a churchgoer, homeowner, and father of four girls. "We are sure that he committed the murders," said Sheriff Roy Whiteaker. That was 17 months ago. Last week, one month after the prosecution opened its case, no one was quite so sure of anything...
...when Tweed was exposed. The Company was not exactly a model of probity. Most of its funds came from the cities treasuries, but under its charter it was entirely controlled by private shareholders--which was not terribly surprising. The original impetus for a bridge came from a profit-minded contractor named William C. Kingsley, a good friend of Boss McLaughijn of Brooklyn...
...England office announced last month that Harvard, as a large Federal contractor, must take immediate action on plans for anti-nepotism policy, maternity leaves and grievance procedures...