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...more. Many states have tightened up their bidding procedures, frequently subjecting sets of bids to computer analysis in a search for suspicious patterns. No one expects the new vigilance completely to reform the construction industry, but the Transportation Department's Welsch thinks the antirigging campaign is beginning to replant the seeds of competition. Says he: "We've seen more contractors coming into the marketplace, because it's a free market again...
Furthermore, it began to appear likely that Harvard has no plans yet to replant the ivy when the Houses are all spruced up again-that, in fact, the ivy was partially responsible for the structural decay that prompted the massive renovation. The plant's tendrils, it seems, secrete a substance that slowly eats away at a wall's mortar and cement...
...George, victim of a highly publicized kidnaping in 1935; in St. Paul. The Yale-educated grandson of the company's founder, Weyerhaeuser worked his college summers in sawmills and after graduation moved into lumber sales, becoming the firm's chairman in 1955. Mindful of the need to replant his forests, Weyerhaeuser once observed that there are few men "who are willing to plunk down $1 million every year on ventures that won't pay off until the middle of the next century...
Harvard claimed that it could excavate and replant the garden without causing muchpermanent damage, and that the underground site was the only one that would allow scholars to pass from the main library to the addition without stepping outside...
...farm in central Pennsylvania. Then he began to do what he had always wanted-plant trees. Jones had a green thumb, his seedlings thrived, and word of his tree farm began to spread. Consequently, after Pennsylvania passed a law in 1948 requiring strip miners to refill and replant the land they had ravaged for coal, company officials came to him for help. "Won't be a damned thing grow," they said. "But go ahead and plant it. That's the law." Under Turk's care, things grew...