She began by hiring contractors to rehabilitate the walls, floors and ceilings — no small task considering the home has 9,000 square feet of living space.
To get around a Pentagon ban on hiring contractors as spies, the report said, Mr. Furlong's team simply rebranded their activities as "atmospheric information" rather than "intelligence".
Cisco has started to cut costs as it looks to weather current conditions, pulling back on hiring, contractors, travel, marketing and recruiting.
Similarly, buyers who fall in love with a bathroom layout but are reluctant to deal with interviewing and hiring contractors, can seek out Expo's installation crews.
Mr. Thompson ruled that instead of hiring contractors who employ gardeners, at a cost of $15 an hour to plant trees, the Parks Department must use contractors who employ laborers at a cost of $40 an hour.
Nearly half the plants have not even developed a conceptual plan for improvements, much less done the tough jobs, from engineering designs to hiring contractors, required to get construction started.
