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...achieve this goal, The Coop hired a local contractor to maintain and restore the historic architecture and detail of the Great Hall and will add a catwalk and grand staircase toward the rear for more space and greater accessibility...
...lockout affected 110 members of Local 245, who are all employees of UNICCO, a state-wide cleaning contractor...
...ValuJet and the FAA are all partially responsible for the disaster, which killed 105 passengers and five crew members last year. According to the report, SabreTech helped cause the accident by failing to properly package and identify the hazardous oxygen generators. ValuJet was slammed for improperly overseeing the maintenance contractor while the FAA was charged with not requiring smoke detection and fire extinguishing equipment in the plane's cargo hold...
...works and fire departments over the painting of firehouses. The fire department wanted the buildings painted in the summer, when its trucks could easily be kept outside, but public works said too many of its people would be on vacation. Norquist allowed the fire department to engage a private contractor to get the project done in the summer. "The good news for the public-works department is they learned from this and changed their procedures," says Norquist. "Competition didn't put them out of business, but it almost...
BALTIMORE: It's not suprising that the Federal Trade Commission is expected to approve the proposed $7.9 billion merger of Lockheed Martin, the number one U.S. contractor, with sixth-ranking Northrop Grumman, since the U.S. is taking the position in the post Cold War era that preserving critical technologies is more important than avoiding monopolies. Observes TIME's Mark Thompson: "The argument here is that fewer efficient companies are better than more inefficient ones." Besides, when was efficiency ever an issue in the defense industry? While such a deal in any other sector would spark worries about concentration of market...