Word: contractors
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...needed. "It was clear in our conversations that the Washington headquarters was pressuring the in-state people to show immediate movement," says Reynolds. "There was no time to set up a proper structure. They just wanted the boxes filled." Eventually, the job slated for Reynolds went to plumbing contractor David Klingensmith, who says, "I haven't really started yet. It's going to be hard...
Silverman arrived in 1993, aiming to make short work of his Herculean task: draining liquid plutonium from leaking containers, venting drums of hydrogen to prevent explosions, baking plutonium metal for storage in sealed vaults. But he and cleanup contractor Kaiser-Hill ran into a brick, or rather a paper, wall. Of the 250 cleanup "milestones" set by the EPA and Colorado's Department of Health and Environment, only two dozen spelled out concrete action. The rest mostly involved producing one report after another, generating much paper but no progress. Scores of internal policy directives, set in place...
...letter sent last week includes statements warning that Facilities Maintenance could lose its contract. "Unless we dramatically improve on performance, we will lose the buildings to an outside contractor...
...Unless we dramatically improve our performance, we will lose the building to an outside contractor," the letter warns. "I consider your performance of your cleaning duties unsatisfactory...
...gain privacy, a common room occupant must build a partition. But this is an expensive and time consuming proposition. First, students must obtain permission from the Master's office to build. Then, they must acquire the materials and construct it themselves, or hire an outside contractor to do it for them. For the mechanically inclined, the cost of materials itself can be high, in the hundreds of dollars. But those who must hire another to build for them may pay as much as $800 for their privacy...