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...telecommunications remains a serious business. In London last week, scores of telecoms companies turned their attention to the sizable Iraqi market as Baghdad's National Communications and Media Commission (NCMC) opened consultations on the award, later this year, of as many as five mobile-network licenses. Potential bidders include Bechtel, Lucent Technologies, MCI, Nokia, Nortel and Persia Telecom. In a country where just 3% of the 26 million population has a landline, mobile links are vital. Market penetration is about 10% and rising. Three licenses awarded in 2003 - by the now-defunct Coalition Provisional Authority - expire on Dec. 22. Transparency...
When Stanley Watras, a Bechtel Group engineer assigned to the Limerick nuclear-power plant in Boyertown, Pa., set off radiation monitors last winter, that in itself was unusual. Nuclear-plant workers rarely come into contact with radioactive substances during their daily routine. What disturbed Watras even more was that he tripped the detectors not while he was leaving the nuclear complex but when he was entering it. As a result, he requested that Limerick's owner, Philadelphia Electric Co. (PECO), check radiation levels at his house in Colebrookdale, Pa., a few miles from the plant...
...Silver Plan: Lawyers from Harvard Law School will be to Bechtel as ‘Nam was to Lieutenant Dan, only this time Forrest Gump will be as fast as a member of the Advocate on horse tranquilizer. Can you say “black knight from Monty Python...
Because of these flaws, Big Dig officials from the Bechtel and Parsons Brinckerhoff firms began to probe the integrity of the rest of the tunnel’s slurry panels. As of the end of March, they found flaws in 58 out of the 1,250 panels that they had examined—only two of which were deemed to have serious defects...
...Fekaiki says he also met with two representatives from Bechtel, the U.S. construction giant working in Iraq, at a January conference in Amman, Jordan. "We got no active response," he says. "A company like Bechtel is funded by U.S. taxpayers to do a job in Iraq. I don't think it sees its existence in Iraq as long term." Francis Canavan, a Bechtel spokesman in Baghdad, says the employees at the conference do not recall talking to al-Fekaiki. He points out that Bechtel, which won $2.9 billion in reconstruction contracts from the U.S. government, has set aside...