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...“And also, when contractors and subcontractors have such demand, they won’t negotiate. You either pay them the fees that you want or you’re out of there.”...
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...Pereira met Drahi in the early 1990s, when the Portuguese immigrant’s company became a subcontractor to the Morocco-born businessman’s early cable ventures....
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...refined world of compression and release, blue skies brought down into the heart of the deep blocks and framed in delicately wrought brick (so exquisitely done it feels right to give credit to the masonry subcontractor...
...The SFO said the company disguised payments through subcontractors, created fake contracts for “fictitious services” and passed payments through several agents and countries....
...If 100 per cent of your money is being earned by one place, you’re not a subcontractor.” White says he’ll never let other people pick who fights, which he considers the most important part of his job....
...The company’s “failures have resulted in millions of dollars of damages”, Boeing said, and it demanded that GDC returned parts, tools, drawings, raw materials and subcontractor contracts....
...Meanwhile, the traditional hierarchy of prime contractor and subcontractors had also been replaced with a more equal partnership....
...United we stand, divided we fall.”...
...Ben Wallace, UK defence secretary, told the BBC’s Andrew Marr programme that trying to “build walls around this would only damage both EU citizens and the United Kingdom”....
...The days when multinationals can claim that monitoring ethical behaviour by subcontractors is not possible, or that the cost of doing so is too great, are slowly coming to an end....
...Times investigation exposed longstanding concerns about textile workers in Leicester, authorities say they have found no evidence of modern slavery offences in the first round of inspections on Boohoo subcontractors...
...Stern notes that it was a subcontractor, and prosecutors said there was no evidence that JDS was aware of the matter....
...The hack comes as the agency has been developing facial recognition technology that would allow travellers to enter and leave the United States quicker....
...In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, many members rushed to work for the intelligence services and the Pentagon (as contractors or subcontractors given their murky backgrounds)....
...The company said a subcontractor in its battery factory “really dropped the ball”, forcing some workers to build battery packs by hand instead of using the automated system it had installed....
...The dataset, which was compiled by a government subcontractor called Noblis, includes a total of 21,294 images of faces (there are other body parts too), averaging six pictures and three videos per person...
...General Data Protection Regulation, which comes into force on May 25, will raise the stakes for companies significantly, increasing their responsibility for data breaches and leaks caused by contractors and subcontractors...
...The board was “united on strategy”, he says. “The banks just wanted us to sort out those legacy contracts and make sure the government was on side,” he adds....
...Often, it is like a Russian nesting doll of contractor, subcontractor, sub-subcontractor, etc. before you finally find someone doing actual work....
...“It won’t affect me,” said Leave voter Graham Peart, who works for a subcontractor to Nissan, the carmaker that has been given assurances by Mrs May’s government....
...A top-secret investigation found the chips had been inserted at factories run by manufacturing subcontractors in China, in what appears to be one of the greatest hardware hacks of its kind....
...agency said on Friday that it granted the deal its blessing subject to conditions that Yandex not ban drivers, partners, or passengers from using other services and provide extensive information about its subcontractor...
...The watchdogs were also united in their “feebleness and timidity”....
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