Word: subcontractor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Romeo is from EI Salvador and lives in Chelsea. He also works for Harvard, but Harvard denies this because technically a subcontractor hired him and Harvard hired only the subcontractor. Still, if you peek into the dining hall late at night, it is Romeo who cleans and sweeps and buffs the floor...
...December 5, 175 students from the Organization for Black Unity (OBU) take over University Hall for six hours, leaving only after they reach an agreement with administrators. The deal stipulates that at least one black subcontractor work on the Graduate School of Design's Gund Hall, that further negotiations would continue between OBU and the University and that a civil rights worker and two black Harvard professors would serve on a committee to evaluate Harvard's hiring and wage decisions...
Last year, the Department of Labor intercededand ordered $15,000 in back wages paid. Inaddition, the U.S. Occupational Safety and HealthAdministration fined a subcontractor $106,000 forsafety violations...
Security inside World Shaving Headquarters rivals the Pentagon's. The Mach3 is manufactured inside the Plywood Ranch, a section of the factory floor that is actually barricaded by steel. In the only major breach Steven Davis, an engineer at Wright Industries, a subcontractor that built one of the machines that manufacture the razor handles, was nabbed by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's office and pleaded guilty to trying to sell a sketch of the Mach3. On Friday he was sentenced to two years and three months in federal prison...
...competes with its former children, some of the regional operating companies, a.k.a. the Baby Bells, are no longer sharing their database of phone numbers with Ma Bell. The upshot is that AT&T has assembled replacement services consisting of one subcontractor, Excell Agent Services in Phoenix, Ariz.; two of its own regional centers; and a few stray agreements with Baby Bells. Thus when you're in, say, Oregon calling to find a Florida number, your long-distance information operator is now likely to be in Phoenix; Scranton, Pa.; or Augusta, Ga. (MCI and Sprint still have agreements with the Bells...