Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense of urgency characterizes the whole operation. Dekel approached a small building contractor last year, telling him, "I have something to offer you, something that can make you a big builder." Later, in the West Bank town of Qalqilya, Dekel showed the contractor a barren hill a mile north of town. He explained that the government controlled 62½ acres there, and would let the contractor have them for $14,000 per acre, about one-twentieth of what the land would cost in the nearby Israeli towns of Kefar Sava and Ra'ananna. He added, "If you will build...
...compatible with Texas Instruments machines. "Midmorning I have to start paying attention to the three-year-old, because he gets antsy," says Hardinger. "Then at 11:30 comes Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers, so that's when I usually get a whole lot done." When her husband, a building contractor, comes home and takes over the children, she returns to the computer. "I use part of my house time for work, part of my work time for the house," she says. "The baby has demand feeding; I have demand working...
...being made by top Government officials have become absurd. The chairman of the Federal Reserve, for example, makes $60,662, compared with $581,533 for the chairman of Citicorp; the Secretary of Defense makes $69,630, compared with $1.2 million for the chairman of United Technologies, a major military contractor. Yet Congress has consistently panicked at the prospect of hiking its wages during tough economic times. When the matter first came up last week, the House voted 2 to 1 to raise its pay 15%, to $69,800. But then the lawmakers got cold feet: a move to revoke...
...Challenger in January, the chief of the shuttle program, Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, ordered a panel headed by NASA Engineer Richard Colonna to examine the suits, literally stitch by stitch. Its provisional finding: "Egregious oversights"-to use the words of one of the investigators-by the prime contractor, the Hamilton Standard division of United Technologies Corp., and by a key subcontractor, Carleton Controls Corp., a subsidiary of Moog Inc. By implication, the report also faulted the space agency...
...answer lies perhaps less with Johnson than with Caro. His narrative never stumbles, his prose never flattens. The lengthy sketches of supporting players, like Sam Rayburn and Contractor Herman Brown, are masterly in themselves. And the secret love affairs, cash-stuffed envelopes and other reportorial hand grenades seem to come remarkably often for so long a book on so familiar a subject. But then, as acquaintances, biographers and most Americans at least a few years beyond voting age have long known, Lyndon Johnson seldom failed to surprise. Volume II cannot either. The envelopes, please. -By Donald Morrison...