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A licensed Massachusetts civil engineer, Fiering has designed dams and bridges in his 30 year career.
The common name for this kind of support for government contracts is "pork barrel." Congressmen routinely try to direct lucrative government business toward home state corporations. If they succeed, as many senior committee members do, they create jobs for constituents and prime a future pump of campaign funds. Common examples...
It was around Thanksgiving that the square-bowed towboat Cooperative Vanguard revved up its diesels in St. Paul and headed down the Mississippi, bound for St. Louis. In its charge: an unwieldy string of 15 barges, each filled with 1,500 tons of corn, soybeans or other grains that were...
Angola has been spending at least 40% of its foreign-currency earnings on military equipment and watching its foreign debt soar to more than $2.5 billion. Prices go up and stores close down. The Cuban presence has not only drained money but also discouraged the flow of aid from the...
Rebel and South African attacks have damaged bridges, railways and hydroelectric dams. The distribution of food has been severely hampered, while repeated UNITA offensives have disabled the Benguela railway, which used to transport copper from Zaire and Zambia to the Atlantic. That disruption alone will cost Angola up to $100...