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As outsourcing has burgeoned, Whitehall simply has not acquired the capacity to write contracts that stretch contractors, including third-sector providers.
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The 2.8km stretch will be handed over by contractors to the council in March following testing and commissioning.
Contractors say they can stretch to pull off basic versions for $15,000, but they often spend around $60,000 for custom designs.
Like many people, they had their share of bad luck with contractors, and the renovations stretched on for years.
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Mr Laliotis was unpopular with many Greeks because of his cosiness with a group of local building contractors (he served a long stretch as public-works minister) and his diehard anti-Americanism.
It was deposited by the construction contractor who is rehabilitating that stretch of the highway.
The military was stretched too thin to help monitor the contractors, so Franz hired two teams of Iraqi women to perform covert garbage photo surveillance.
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