"When the Army was forced to outsource maintenance to private contractors, the number of people doing maintenance dropped dramatically, the contractor cut corners, fell down on the job, and our soldiers paid the price".
The group managed to get Mexico's federal environmental enforcement agency to halt a project after the contractor cut a road through the desert, although she doubts the delay will last for long.
Last March, a 23-year-old bank contractor cut through the secured gate at the entrance to a farm in Little Rock, Ark., and proceeded to a small house on the property.
Nonresidential specialty trade contractors cut 10,800 jobs in July.
They hampered us and our contractors, cut down our banners, broke our cars, stole our newspaper, didn't let us work.
The writer has been blamed for traffic disruption in Edinburgh as contractors cut back the 30ft hedges outside her 17th-century mansion.
During the construction of the Citicorp Center in Manhattan, contractors cut costs by bolting together a series of joints, rather than welding them.
Concrete is very expensive — much of the cement for it comes from the United States, Mr. Dooley said — so some contractors cut corners by adding more sand to the mix.
Instead of scoring the kick-out panels, the contractors cut small doors with hinges into the plywood, and covered the entire mechanism with two layers of heavy polyethylene sealed with duct tape, fire officials said.
Young explained that BP contractors cut the polypropylene lines connecting the boom, but left the anchors in place.
