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...felt it was inappropriate to sign an agreement with less-stringent guidelines than we currently have in place," said Colin D. Riley, a spokesperson for Boston University (B.U.). Riley said B.U. is a member of the coalition and supports its work, but decided not to sign the plan...
None of that has prevented the company, now headed by Riley Bechtel, a grandson of Steve's, from flourishing mightily. When Steve Sr. took over, Bechtel had revenues of less than $20 million; a quarter-century later, when he officially retired, sales were $463 million. The company, still family controlled, had 1997 revenues of $11.3 billion; its projects range from a transit system in Athens to a semiconductor plant in China. These and others are fruits of Steve Bechtel's forward thinking--decades before the term global economy became a cliche...
...commentary on America's cultural obsession with youth [SPECTATOR, Nov. 9]: for the record, we at the Felicity television series did not fire writer Riley Weston when we "learned she was 32 years old instead of 19, as she had claimed." In fact, a full two weeks before she revealed her actual age to us, we chose not to renew Weston's contract. All our writers are in their 30s or 40s. Had Weston been the right fit for our show, regardless of her age, she would still be here. Next time, if your writer does even less research...
...HUPD Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley defendedhis record, saying he shares the guards'apprehensions about their future...
Moreover, Riley said he's "gone to greatlengths" to better integrate the security guardsand police officers. But Riley declined tocomment on the specifics of the bargaining...