Word: reinspect
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Despite the $484 million settlement, the troubles at the Electric Boat division were not over. In 1981 the company's own inspectors discovered that workers had neglected to make critical welds in several submarines and covered up the errors with faked welding reports. The fiasco forced Electric Boat to reinspect all the welds and make repairs costing about $100 million. To recoup its loss, General Dynamics decided to turn to, yes, the Pentagon. The company argued that the Navy was liable for paying the repair bill under an obscure but standard clause in the submarine contract that called...
...shove themselves and the Chief Executive through a swarm of people. There are also at least a dozen agents positioned along the President's walking route keeping a wary eye on the crowd. If the President is headed for an indoor location, other Secret Servicemen with electronic devices reinspect the room for bugs or bombs...
...platform. A second platform, not yet in use, was suspended at the first tower on the San Francisco side. Unknown to Lambert, a party of State engineers a few minutes before had pronounced that other platform unsafe, were even then walking out on the bridge to reinspect his platform...
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