Eventually he went into business as a general contractor, building single-family homes and other projects.
D. in anthropology, then moved to New York to become a general contractor for ten years.
" Past champion Kenneth (Buster) Hyman, a general contractor, saw a pipperoo of an accident in January: "Some guy crashed about 10 feet out of the gate.
How did BB become a general contractor?
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An impoverished peasant from Yemen who emigrated to Saudi Arabia, he started out as a general contractor in 1931 and built one of the largest construction companies in Saudi Arabia, amassing a fortune estimated to be at least a billion dollars.
Weisenberger, 69, a retired general contractor, says he hopes the lawsuit will bring out the truth of what happened to the people of McCullom Lake.
And so what ends up happening is the taxpayer loses the benefit of a better product at a better price because everything is bundled into this huge contract with a giant general contractor who then divvies up the business.
Michael (Mad Dog) Harris, a 60-year-old general contractor from Phoenix, flies to matches with his wife, Suzanne (Ramblin' Rose), in their Piper Aztec.
Under the equally disciplined Jack Welch, number-three Pentagon contractor General Electric applied a similar financial template to its business and came up with a very different strategy.
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John Gallagher, a spokesman for Tishman Construction, the general contractor overseeing construction of the towers and hub, said DCM hasn't caused any delays and the contractor is working overtime on its projects.
He also had to find a certified contractor to draw up a general plan for the project to take to the Russian standards agency, which would then oversee every detail of the construction work no doubt finding many more snags along the way.
Taking that assurance at face value, prime contractor General Dynamics launched a campaign to convince Congress and the Obama Administration that buying a smaller number of the vehicles while upgrading current amphibious systems would be more cost-effective than canceling the program and starting over.
Drawing from her experience as a real-estate agent for 10 years, she served as her own general contractor and interior designer.
The plant is what is known in Pentagon parlance as a GOCO a government-owned, contractor-operated site that has been managed by defense contractor General Dynamics since it bought the armored-vehicle operations of the Chrysler Corporation in the early 1980s.
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Prime contractor for the AfriStar satellite was Alcatel Space with Marta Marconi Space, a joint venture of Britain's General Electric and France's Lagardere the major sub-contractor.
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