Word: subcontractors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delayed until weather conditions worsened. Last winter's record storms twice tore down the protective covering and staging needed for the masonry work. Cruz claims that both the brick supply delay and the bad weather caused a two-month setback. Cruz also alleges that Harvard gave the black brickworker subcontractor "a horrendous time" even though he did a very good job. He says Harvard claimed that he didn't have a track record and the architect wrote the University recommending in so many words that he not be hired. "I think it was blatant racism," Cruz adds...
...Construction and Management division of the University redesigned the fire sprinkler system in the building from the original spraying system to a sprinkler system that required extensive piping, causing a delay in other roofing work. In addition, he says Harvard procrastinated in its approval of one of the subcontractors by quibbling over the price being asked. In the end, Cruz says, he was forced to seek out another subcontractor, a friend, who was willing to charge a reduced rate. Both the redesign and the procrastination delayed the project two months, he says, because the ceiling and other work...
When an inspector from the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) tried to walk unannounced into Ferrol G. ("Bill") Barlow's shop in Pocatello, Idaho, almost three years ago, the irritated proprietor refused him entry. Barlow, an electrical and plumbing subcontractor, cited the Bill of Rights, a copy of which hangs on his office wall, and particularly the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits "unreasonable searches" of private property. The inspector, Barlow insisted, needed a search warrant to inspect his place of business. After Barlow ignored a federal judge's order to allow the inspector...
Richardson blamed the delays in finishing the remodeling on subcontractor's delays. She said the principle contractor, Minton Construction of Cambridge, had finished its own work on time...
During the early 1970s, executives of Rohr, primarily an aerospace subcontractor, boasted that they would help rebuild the nation's surface transportation system. They planned futuristic trains, air cushions and people-movers (transmission belts carrying people rather than baggage). With equal enthusiasm, they spoke of new vistas in space communications and automated mail systems. It added up to a grand adventure into uncharted terrain-a bit too grand...