Word: repairable
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...extremely low bidder for just over $1 million and then was upped substantially in a suspicious change of project plans. In Chicago, a ring of thieves looted the GSA of furniture and office equipment. In New Orleans, the investigation centers on a scheme of multiple payments for building-repair and maintenance work never performed, a rip-off similar to one that has been uncovered in Denver. In Honolulu, $185,000 worth of inventory is missing from a GSA self-service store...
...Region 3, which includes the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and Delaware-an area that accounts for 44% of GSA purchasing. Last week GSA Administrator Jay Solomon announced that 50 indictments are expected in a matter of weeks, most of them involving fraud in the repair and maintenance of federal buildings in Region 3. Eventually, more than 500 indictments are expected nationally...
...Assistant Administrator before Solomon named him last month as the new chief of Region 3: "A directive went out that federal buildings should be located in downtown areas as part of the Administration's urban policy. We actually had to stop a plan to move a boat-repair shop from the waterfront to the downtown area and have the boats carted to the new location...
...each. The Smalls' present inventory of equipment is worth better than half a million dollars: seven combines, six $20,000 trucks for hauling the cut grain to the elevators, three service pickups loaded down with about $20,000 worth of spare parts (the Smalls do all their own repair work), three house trailers, a 1976 pickup and a beat-up four-door blue American Motors station wagon...
...city. The event possessed immense practical meaning for the Big Apple, which for two years has been creeping back from the edge of bankruptcy; the guarantees will enable New York to borrow enough money at least to start straightening out its preposterously bungled financial affairs and to repair the streets, bridges, subways and other facilities that have become dangerously decayed...