Word: contractors
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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...
...rumor in Laguna Niguel, Calif., was that Building Contractor Frederick Penney, 57, embittered by a divorce contest, wanted to hire a hitman to kill his wife. So an agent of the Orange County sheriffs department, posing as a killer for hire, arranged a meeting with the suspect. The upshot, say investigators: a $3,000 contract to kill Susan Penney, 35. Half was paid up front; the balance was due after the deed, which was supposed to look like an accidental fall in the bathtub...