After the cold war ended, military contractors changed themselves into technology and media concerns.
Once you get the stamped drawings approved, you may see your contractor change the architect's painstaking designs based on the contractor's familiarity with the house's wiring, plumbing and other inner workings, said Gideon Danziger, a contractor in Manhattan.
In a bid to reassure Los Alamos's workforce, Abraham said that even if the contractor changes, the lab's current employees--and their generous university pension benefits--will be protected.
RRP said of the project that "From the outset, RRP has advised that the project could not be built within a construction budget of £13.1M due to client changes, the political requirement to use indigenous materials at any cost and exceptional contractor changes.
Enforcement of labor laws and setting standards for government contractors could change that equation, both directly and indirectly.
This is the bank, after all, that illegally foreclosed on more than 100 active members of the military, declared a living man dead for three years, sent contractors to change the locks on a property that wasn't in default -- causing considerable distress to one unlucky parrot -- and sold customers' houses out from under them in the middle of the loan modification process.
Sitting in his kitchen recently, he acknowledged that the outcry aimed at Mr. Rowland for receiving free or deeply discounted work on his vacation home from state contractors had changed the climate.
(There will, of course, be howls about the sanctity of contracts, but the fine print that allows one contractor to change the rules whenever he feels like it and to do to the other essentially whatever the hell he wants to should not be considered a valid contract).
The contractor's changes to the architect's work may force the client to play referee.
In 1999, Perkin-Elmer sold its analytical instrument business and its name to EG&G, a government contractor that changed its name to PerkinElmer Instruments, in Shelton.
