Word: workmanship
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...Justice Department for overrun claims. Navy Secretary John Lehman last August called the costs a "rip-off." But early this year charges were dropped, and Lehman said the Navy has contracted with Electric Boat to build six more Tridents because the company had improved its controls on workmanship and materials...
...later passage, Hoving confesses to contemplating theft. Visiting Florence's Bargello, a sculpture museum, he spies an ivory plaque with the same distinctive workmanship as the cross. Knowing he must feel the ivory piece in his hands to examine it, and reluctant to petition for permission, he slickly unscrews the case in the absence of the guard. "For an instant," he concedes, "I even thought the unthinkable...
...pioneer investors, however, ran into serious problems. Workmanship was often shoddy. Employees were sometimes unfamiliar with wrenches and other basic tools. Chinese government officials demanded a role in plant management, such as naming supervisors, who often turned out to be more adept at political maneuvering than running a factory. Telephones, roads and other elements of economic infrastructure were limited...
...community in general." On the first score HRE has failed and according to Silverman, it has little hope of success for at least "several years." The second point continues to be debated by Harvard officials, who perceive improvement, and tenants, who see erratic heating systems, poor insulation, slipshod workmanship, and inflated rents...
...time obsessed with speed, when pride in workmanship is in decline, the very existence of such a project is both a challenge and a contradiction in terms. To build the 153-ft. towers, fully 24,000 pieces of Indiana limestone must be cut and individually shaped. The project is expected to take 30 years, and real construction cannot even begin until 7,200 stones have been finished. "We are working just as they did in medieval times," says Bambridge. "In the 18 months since work began we have completed over 1,000 stones...