Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Unfortunately, it's hardly a surprise," says TIME correspondent Jeffrey Kluger. The cash-strapped Russians still haven't built the life-support module. NASA is behind on an X-ray telescope. Prime station contractor Boeing is over budget by $800 million. "An international, collaborative effort like this, with each engineer answering to his own country or his own contractor -- these delays won't be the last...
...place. While the landscaping will have to wait for spring, bulldozers and other machines are erecting the foundations of what appears to be a perimeter park replete with fence and monument. Perhaps HPRE is keeping the project under wraps because it lacks a (released) name. The blueprints in the contractor's trailer simply read, "Harvard Racquet Facility." Yet the complex--which will include 16 international squash courts and six indoor tennis courts, as well as a weight facility and offices for the Athletic Department--has potentially name-worthy donors among wealthy alumni who have been reared for generations in these...
...Malkani's technical training: she has degrees in mathematics, computer science and electrical engineering, and worked in telecommunications before founding her own company. Says Malkani: "It was so unusual to be a lady [with that] expertise." Novelty of course is not enough; ISN's credentials as a U.S. government contractor also intrigued foreign officials. But novelty can assist in opening some doors. --Reported by Julie Grace/Chicago
...only option. The first try at the Midwest Center for Reproductive Health in Minneapolis ended in a miscarriage, and the second, using leftover embryos that had been frozen, didn't take at all. "We had some real downer weeks, particularly after the second attempt," says Rick, an excavation contractor...
...worker, whether a Harvard employee or an outside contractor, needs a student to open the door. If someone claims that he or she is a worker needing to gain entrance to a residence, tell him or her to speak to a supervisor about how to get in. Harry R. Lewis '68, Dean of Harvard College