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Glitches had already appeared in the system when I.B.M. bought out an original contractor in 2002.
The system was plagued with errors while run by the original contractor, WorldCom Inc. Karen DeMasters.
The original contractor, after promising miracles, demanded more money, then disappeared.
But Worldcom agreed to take over the system last year after the original contractor said it could not continue.
The programme had also been dogged by a protracted legal battle with the original contractor, US tech and defence firm Raytheon.
But delays occurred because of a variety of problems, including soil contaminated with petroleum and the disqualification of the original contractor because of suspicions of mob ties.
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The interruptions were exacerbated when the original contractors appointed to carry out the construction work, First Land, went into administration.
The programme was hampered by a legal dispute in which the original contractors, Raytheon, sued the Home Office for £500m after being sacked shortly after the 2010 general election.
When the original contractors for the optical effects proved unable to complete their tasks in time, effects supervisor Douglas Trumbull was given carte blanche to meet the December 1979 release date.
Port Morris, a fifth-generation company run by the DeLazzero family, was the original paving contractor.
In that instance, regulators refused to approve the original demolition contractor Bovis sought, Safeway Environmental.
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