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Under the proposal, Exodus would subcontract with Harvard for the duration of the study (at least a year) and receive money to bus 1,000 students, pay staff salaries, hire consultants, and buy office equipment. The study would try to measure the effect that busing has had on the performance and attitudes of Exodus children and on the feelings of their parents...
...Spain, has offered to pay a quarter of the cost of it, and in return will get a quarter of the power that it produces. Westinghouse invaded heavily protected French territory, got the job of building the reactor for a Franco-Belgian plant in the Ardennes by promising to subcontract much of the work to local firms. In order to profit from the German market, Westinghouse has also licensed Siemens to use its reactor patents; G.E. has closed a similar deal with Germany's A.E.G...
Detroit's operatives keep in constant touch with key informants in such sensitive and hard-to-patrol areas as the tool and die shops, design firms, plaster shops, tire companies and art studios that subcontract for the auto industry. Here they can often pick up information that skilled engineers and product planners can assemble into a faithful replica of a rival's new car. Ford, for example, was able to construct a clay model of General Motors' Chevelle nearly a year before its introduction. Most agents do their work so quietly that only a handful...
...good position as a wiring inspector. But again he quit, scraping together $97.50 to start a tiny business making an electric socket he had designed. It failed miserably ("It was a grim year. I had to pawn my wife's kimono"), but he struggled along with subcontract work until he developed an electrical attachment plug that could be sold for 30% less than his competitors' plugs. By the time he was 27, he was a success...
...little fellow, contracts have been given to firms that were either incompetent or underfinanced. At the Offutt Air Base launching site near Omaha, the construction contract was awarded to a builder who in one Pentagonian's words "didn't even own a wheelbarrow." His frantic efforts to subcontract the entire job produced such confusion and delay that the Air Force ruled that henceforth a contractor must be able to do at least 20% of the work with his own organization...