Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most damning revelations were in the report's catalogue of financial abuse. Many contracts for the manufacture of reactor components were slackly written, lacking even technical specifications. Said Investigator A. Ernest Fitzgerald of one contractor's agreements: "I think it was very decent of Westinghouse to do any work, because it is not clear they have to do anything at all under these contracts." A steam generator priced at $5 million in 1975 actually cost the Government $71 million. The report found evidence of both bribery and fraud by some contractors. A consortium of 753 private utilities agreed...
...Said a Hyatt vice president, James Howard, in a careful letter to the mayor and Missouri Governor Christopher ("Kit") Bond: "We do not know the cause of the tragedy. However, we do know that the structural integrity and safety of the building had been assured by the architects, the contractor, and in subsequent building Somewhere, the assurance flawed...
...casual observer, William Holden Bell appeared to be the very model of a hardworking, leisure-loving Los Angeles suburbanite. A U.C.L.A.-trained radar engineer, Bell, 61, had put in 29 years with Hughes Aircraft Co., a major defense contractor once owned by the late Howard Hughes. Together with his pretty second wife Rita, a Belgian-born Pan American airlines cabin attendant, and her nine-year-old son from an earlier marriage, Bell lived in a fairly ordinary-looking condominium complex in Playa del Rey. It had the usual Southern California accouterments-tennis courts, pools, saunas and Jacuzzis...
...that the constitutional question has been settled, the Justice Department intends to prosecute some of the more than 500,000 who have not yet registered. Even many of those who had, felt the exemption of women was unfair, for reasons both philosophical and practical. Said San Francisco Painting Contractor Mike Gallegioni, 21: "It will be lonely without them...
...Dallas firm's president. The final Gaddafi order was for 500,000 of the timers, for which he promised to pay $35 million. They cost only $2.5 million to produce. Explosives to go with the timers were illegally supplied by J.S. Brower & Associates of Pomona, Calif, another CIA contractor. Some 40,000 Ibs. of the high explosive RDX-the largest nonmilitary shipment on record-were flown to Libya in 55-gal. drums marked "industrial solvent." This was a risky enterprise since the drums could have exploded in flight in turbulent weather...