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...competes with its former children, some of the regional operating companies, a.k.a. the Baby Bells, are no longer sharing their database of phone numbers with Ma Bell. The upshot is that AT&T has assembled replacement services consisting of one subcontractor, Excell Agent Services in Phoenix, Ariz.; two of its own regional centers; and a few stray agreements with Baby Bells. Thus when you're in, say, Oregon calling to find a Florida number, your long-distance information operator is now likely to be in Phoenix; Scranton, Pa.; or Augusta, Ga. (MCI and Sprint still have agreements with the Bells...
...open with gay abandon at the slightest bump, where the reading lights flicker with a hypnotic frequency and where the food, insofar as it can be detected on the plate, is seldom warmed above the temperature of the ambient stratosphere. One can only pray in these circumstances that the subcontractor in charge of the cabin was not also entrusted with engine maintenance. As for the crucial issue of when to go up and when to go down: we read of air-traffic-control computers so antique that they still run on vacuum tubes, and monitored, in most cases, by underpaid...
...Subcontractor Maurer & Sforza, Inc. claims that Harvard and Shawmut Design and Construction, the general contractors hired by the University, did not abide by the conditions of the subcontract, according to a statement issued by Maurer & Sforza's lawyers...
...monitor an increasingly common practice: airlines' using outside contractors to perform routine maintenance and repairs. Although the ValuJet crash is now believed to have been caused by mislabeled oxygen generators rather than an inspection or a mechanical failure, those generators had been prepared for shipping by one such subcontractor, SabreTech Inc., a Phoenix, Arizona, company that handled a number of tasks for the airline...
...filled with lights and wires -- and the NASA staffers knew it. Agency employees and contractors were allegedly bribed to help book the box on a shuttle mission. According to the Houston Chronicle, a manager at NASA's Life Sciences Directorate and an employee at GB Tech, a Martin Marietta subcontractor, have been implicated in the scheme. Coming on top of NASA's other misfortunes in recent years, the disclosures were disheartening. "It gives morale a good, solid kick in the stomach," says Larry Friesen, a former engineer for Lockheed, a NASA contractor...