The only people who stand to profit are a handful of construction companies and landowners, and not the general population.
Despite the safeguards, he said, contracts for 68 schools were steered to a handful of construction companies with direct ties to politicians.
Later, a handful of construction workers, some wearing shirts that said Yonkers Contracting, began yelling and shouting profanities at reporters gathered on a sidewalk and one worker pushed a reporter.
Just south of Chelsea, a handful of construction workers chanted, "Go Trump!" Around Pier 40, a jogger shouted, "You and Trump can both go fuck yourselves!" An hour later, he entered the North Cove Marina, a yacht-filled inlet near the World Trade Center.
A handful of construction projects have already been approved - the exact number is hard to pinpoint, as the relevant government webpage is not regularly updated.
(The ride was made one degree of difficulty greater by stretches of gravelly or chewed-up pavement, and the presence of a handful of road construction crews. On the other hand, the construction mitigated the car traffic a bit).
Without a handful of major construction projects under way, "you'd really be in a pickle," Mr. Scott said.
He added: "Any new public construction projects must be the right ones, with the money being spent to benefit our economy, not a handful of multinational construction firms.
President Rousseff said all agreements between Petrobras and a handful of large construction companies which acted as contractors for Petrobras would be investigated.
In the U.S., this won't be accomplished by pointing to a handful of new construction projects and declaring that your city already has too much scaffolding.
Construction and bidding rules are so complex that only a handful of New York's many construction companies even try to build schools.
