Word: project
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Brown claimed during the 1988 controversy that Bulger accepted money through a former legal associate, Thomas Finnerty, in return for influence on the project. Bulger paid the money back within a year, and a federal investigation found no wrong-doing on his part...
City Manager Robert W. Healy said yesterday that Boston attorney Edward F. Lawson would lead the city's legal inquiry into Scheme Z. Healy also announced the appointment of a committee of area residents and city officials to investigate the controversial project...
...millions. Since Chile is honoring the embargo against Baghdad, he was forced to cut off his lucrative contracts, the latest of which was for a $60 million plant in Iraq designed to produce fuses for bombs, artillery shells and rockets. The 31 Cardoen engineers who were working on the project have returned to Chile; it is not clear when, if ever, Cardoen will be paid. Cardoen also suffered a blow when U.S. officials refused to certify as airworthy his military adaptation of the Bell 206 helicopter, a move he attributes to "political reasons...
Anyone can make a mistake. But when it sabotages a $1.5 billion project, the blunder is not easily forgiven. And when evidence of the mistake is repeatedly ignored until it is too late to fix the problem, then the episode becomes scandalous...
...until after the instrument was launched last spring. Yet technicians at the company that made the mirror had indications of trouble long before the telescope went into space -- and apparently never told the design team about the disturbing signs. Meanwhile, managers at NASA who had responsibility for the Hubble project paid little attention to the details of the telescope's construction. "There were at least three cases where there was clear evidence that a problem had developed, and it was missed all three times," said Lew Allen, the director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the head...