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...Along Pope Valley Road, contractors are burying the cables in the soil surrounded by blackened tree stumps sticking up like burnt matchsticks....
...BP and its contractors were unambiguously responsible for pouring 4m barrels of oil into the gulf, but PG&E did not use flame-throwers....
...This month’s proposed merger between L3 and Harris Corp creates a genuine challenger to the big five: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics and Raytheon....
...Officials in Morrison, Colorado, in 2014 almost lost federal funding for the $144,000 repair of an ageing bridge because a contractor installed steel beams rolled in Canada before receiving a dispensation...
...The Irish company began life in 1919 as a local electrical contractor based in Clonmel, County Tipperary, and launched itself as an international oil services group in the 1970s....
...Last week, Noble Corporation, the drilling contractor, revealed that the US Coast Guard had raised concerns over “deficiencies and maintenance issues” on the Noble Discoverer, Shell’s other rig in the Arctic...
...“The front factory is compliant, but there are back contractors who are not being compliant . . . western buyers have overlooked those,” he said....
...A July news story reveals footage shot at a Chinese military university of an attack being launched from custom-built software created by the Electrical Engineering University of the People’s Liberation...
...subsidiary of Carillion; Overbury, a fit-out contractor; and Gratte Brothers, an electrical services engineer....
...The Chicago native and 22-year McDonald’s veteran began his career as an electrical engineer at Northrop Corporation, the defence contractor, and after joining the restaurant chain in 1990 worked his way...
...The full impact of this hack became apparent when Lockheed Martin, a defense contractor, reported that a cyber attack on its information systems was linked to the RSA hack....
...In early October, members of the European Parliament’s environment committee voted overwhelmingly in favour of changes to the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive, which would impose...
...But Kesa Electricals , which was trading ex-dividend, dropped 7 per cent to 87p before quarterly results....
...Eaton Corp, the Ohio-based manufacturer of industrial equipment and components, reported an “outstanding” fourth quarter of last year and said earnings could grow by up to 38 per cent this year, thanks to...
...The defence contractor also said that 2010 targets were “dependent on the release of delayed contracts”....
...This year BHP cut 6,000 full-time employees and contractors and shelved some nickel operations as demand slumped for the industrial raw materials....
...Many of [BHP’s] contractors will go bankrupt,” she says....
...He described the Pemex law as “a profound change, a new model for Pemex” that “incentivises success for contractors – in contrast to what has happened up to now”....
...In Seattle, its commercial aircraft division completed the “power-on” sequence for the 787, connecting each of its complex electrical systems to a power grid....
...Ilkley’s NG Bailey, a large building services contractor with more than 4,000 staff and £500m ($1bn) revenues, is a family-owned business that has been operating for more than 80 years....
...Key deals that take effect this month include those for electrical contractors and the plumbing industry, at 4 and 4.5 per cent respectively, and Network Rail’s maintenance staff at 4.8 per cent....
...By then a Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps reserves, Stone received his doctorate two weeks before September 11....
...Earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas in 1975, and completed course work for a PhD in electrical engineering....
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