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...relief agency USAID requires contracts to go to U.S. groups; but British firms must vie for British aid money with foreign competitors. The stakes, argues chief executive of the British Consultants and Construction Bureau Colin Adams, are not actually that high: "These projects are a steady, long-term grind, without vast profits." Yet he and many others still hope the U.S. will allow "steadfast allies" to subcontract work, as they did in Afghanistan. Corus Sings The Steely Blues When conflict happens in a marriage, the most common reason is money. Last week Corus - the steelmaker forged in 1999 from...
...documents and interview current and former officials. One reason for the increased budget: the commission wants to hire its own staff and not rely on officials on loan from the very agencies under investigation. "They want people independent of the agency," said one source. "Everybody's got oxen to grind." The commission also has yet to receive a copy of the highly classified 800-plus-page report from last year's joint House-Senate inquiry on 9/11. Meanwhile, Congress is still wrangling with intelligence and law-enforcement agencies over how much of its report can be made public. --By Timothy...
...tempting, of course, to blame the language. After all, maybe their predilection for clubbing was the natural result when everyone tipped off the international students that life at Harvard was often “a grind.” But evidence suggests that the love of grinding may be more sexual than intellectual. “Grinding is the best thing about America. You don’t get it in other countries,” Turnbull says, reflecting on the irony of what he sees as America’s strangely bi-polar sensibilities. “You can?...
...HAVEN—Yale University threatened to grind to a halt yesterday morning, as thousands of unionized Yale workers—including graduate student teaching assistants (TAs)—went on strike...
There, far underground, rock-breaking machines crumble and grind the ore and mix it with water to form a soupy slurry, which is piped to surface containers to await transport to the Cameco refining mill at Key Lake, about 50 miles away. This underground processing plant is McArthur River's third major innovation. "What we've done," says Doug Beattie, the mine's chief engineer, "is essentially bring the front end of the mill down to the mine...