Word: workmanship
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After Williams made his charges, Matt McCloskey, who is already being sued for $4,908,358 by the Justice Department for "defective workmanship" on an $11.8 million Veterans Administration hospital in Boston, denied everything, saying his company had sent a check only for the amount Reynolds had billed it. And with Republicans in full cry on the issue of morality in Government, President Johnson announced that he had ordered the FBI to investigate the McCloskey case. It was a pretty good bet that no FBI report would be made public before November...
...blameless. In arbitration, even the loser's good name is safeguarded: hearings are closed to the public and awards are kept secret. As some lawyers see it, the greatest merit of arbitration in business disputes is that experts decide the outcome. In a dispute over faulty workmanship in houses, for example, the A.A.A. panel consisted of an architect, a building-materials manufacturer, and an insurance executive specializing in housing matters. To make sure it has the right experts to rule on any imaginable controversy, the A.A.A. maintains a list of 13,000 available arbitrators with special knowledge...
...great was the danger that a barrier had to be erected around the whole building to protect passers-by from getting clobbered by falling bricks. When investigating engineers tore away a wall, they discovered gaping holes in the cement undersurface as well as other alarming examples of shoddy workmanship. The VA kept patching up the structure, finally decided to strip off every one of the hospital's 1,575,000 bricks, remove all 5,000 windows and window frames and replace them with new windows and a sheath of steel panels. Total cost...
...building and the engineering company that supervised construction-cough up the $4,900,000, plus interest. The three companies refused, and last week the Department sued them for the full amount, specifically accusing McCloskey's outfit of having made "numerous departures" from specifications and having "provided defective workmanship and deficient equipment and materials...
...buying a suit, consider workmanship, fit and fabric after you have picked a cut and price range. In the lower price ranges inquire about shrinkage and try to find a fabric which will wear well. Higher priced garments have better quality interlinings which make a difference after being worn for a year and dry cleaned. A better coat will be more likely to fit smoothly and not pucker, too. In plaid sport coats, the plaid will be cut so that the sleeves match horizontally with the body of the coat...