Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, a 1986 audit of the FAS physical plant found that each of its 242 buildings is in need of renovations. Administrators estimate cost of the repairs in the hundreds of millions. An added problem is that the exteriors of much of the property cannot be altered because the structures are historical landmarks...
Parsons has divided his staff into three units in order to deal more effectively with plans, construction and operation of the physical plant...
...secret shipments, Toshiba Machine disguised eight sophisticated milling machines as simple hole-boring devices and rechristened them with misleading jargon (in one case, from a model MBP 110 to a TDP 70/110) to fool MITI inspectors. When Toshiba had brought Soviet officials to its plant to see the machines work, engineers demonstrated only the simple functions during normal working hours, then later showed off the equipment's true capacity when the plant was deserted, the report claims. The secrecy extended even to accounting: Toshiba Machine allegedly split the proceeds from one shipment into two semiannual periods to avoid drawing attention...
...addition, a 1986 audit of the FAS physical plant found that each of its 242 buildings is in need of renovations. Administrators estimate cost of the repairs in the hundreds of millions. An added problem is that the exteriors of much of the property cannot be altered because the structures are historical landmarks...
Parsons has divided his staff into three units in order to deal more effectively with plans, construction and operation of the physical plant...