Word: contractors
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...ability to build coalitions and deal head on with crises, always with a patrician air. Though her time in public office has been relatively short--she first won election in 1982 as a county commissioner--her political education is of the highest class. Her father Webster Todd, a building contractor whose projects included Rockefeller Center, was influential in the presidential candidacies of Eisenhower and Nixon. Her mother was a fund raiser for George Bush. Her husband and adviser John Whitman is the grandson of a Governor of New York. At least by lineage, she represents the pragmatic and waning Republicanism...
...contractor for Memorial Hall is A.J. Martini, Inc. The contractor for the humanities complex has not yet been selected, according to Parsons, but Shawmut Construction is providing pre-construction services...
...George A. Spartichino, a fence contractor who came in third in the recount before being eliminated, blamed McSweeney for refusing to accept defeat...
...military forces, enable those countries to defend themselves better and reduce the price of U.S. weapons by spreading the cost over bigger production runs. "We're pushing hard for overseas arms sales to make up for the shrinking U.S. military budget," confides an arms marketeer at a major defense contractor. "It's a matter of survival...
...difficult lives, have an abiding belief in a simplified version of the American Dream. They want, in Cohen's words, "the house, the car, the kids." He talks to several married couples, all living in varying degrees of contentment. He also paints an interesting portrait of Rod, a painting contractor who grew up in a "solidly middle class" home, but is having genuine problems maintaining the same quality of life his parents...