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...Southwest, the construction site is what the factory floor is to the MidWest - the place where blue-collar men and women earn their keep. A tour of downtown Los Angeles and the industrial warehouse area to the south finds busy jobs sites few and far between. In Vernon, Oltmans Construction Co., ranked as one of the nation's elite "Top 400 Contractors" by Engineering News Record, is completing a gleaming white 60,000 square foot warehouse and office space for CR Lawrence whose business is construction, industrial, architectural and automotive supplies. Ed Sorbel, superintendent for Carpenter's Local 630, says...
...leaders of the two-month Pentagon review, former Army Secretary Togo West and the Navy's onetime top admiral, Vernon Clark, told reporters last week that they didn't drill down into Hasan's motives. "Our concern is with actions and effects, not necessarily with motivations," West said. Added Clark: "We certainly do not cite a particular group." Part of their reticence, they said, was to avoid running afoul of the criminal probe of Hasan that is now under way. Both are declining interview requests before their congressional testimony, a Pentagon spokesman said. (Read TIME's cover story...
Mather resident Vernon Wu '12 warned fellow Mather residents Friday evening in an e-mail sent over the House open list...
Aviation executives can't help feeling inspired by Schaller's appropriately named Quest. The industry is marked by trailblazers who defied the odds. Clyde Vernon Cessna, a farmer whose imagination was sparked by a flying circus in Oklahoma City, launched his company just before the Great Depression; Cessna certified two of its monoplanes on Oct. 29, 1929, the day of the Crash. It takes vision and the right flight plan for any venture in this field to get airborne. Schaller might have both...
...Born June 15, 1954 in Philadelphia, the oldest of five children in a Democratic Irish Catholic family. His mother worked at Mount Vernon, the historic home of George Washington; his father was an Air Force officer...