A7 News in Contractors' Deaths For the families of five American contractors kidnapped in Iraq more than a year ago, waiting with no news of their fate has made for a battle of hope against dread.
The Bush administration, meanwhile, has shown little interest in prosecuting contractors for crimes committed in Iraq.
In the 1870s, a scandal was exposed, in which contractors for star postal routes were greatly overpaid for their services with the connivance of government officials (including Second Assistant Postal Secretary Thomas J. Brady and former Senator Stephen Wallace Dorsey).
In 2006, contractors for the California Republican Party had local error rates of 60percentt in San Bernadino County, the Los Angeles Times reported, where 1,800 out of 3,000 submitted registrations were incomplete and could not be processed.
Prosecutors charged that Mr. Coren helped set up a fund in which contractors for agencies including the City Housing Authority, the School Construction Authority and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority deposited fringe benefits payments for workers, but the contractors then used the money for other purposes.
But there is danger, he went on, in using contractors for what librarians call "core competencies," including running the reference desk, selecting books and other materials and designing specialized programs for a library's communities.
The Iraqi government had been demanding the change since a notorious episode in 2007, when contractors for Blackwater shot and killed 17 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Baghdad.
Airlines in the United States have been increasing the use of contractors for maintenance in recent years to cut costs.
Although concrete pavements are the preferred solution of contractors for floors in industrial applications, comparatively little research has been done in this field.
