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...opened last June and provides a second, four-mile-long bridge for traffic across the bay, and an interstate-highway bridge over Baltimore harbor. The two projects were financed by a $220 million bond issue approved by the state legislature in 1967, but both ran into multimillion-dollar cost overruns???an extra $40 million for the bay bridge alone. Consulting firm for both projects: J.E. Greiner Co., which is currently forbidden by the state department of transportation to work on public Maryland projects, largely because of complaints about the cost overruns on the bay span...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Out of the Past: The Agnew Case | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

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