A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer.... He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if a newspaper reporter, because of his fastidiousness or from a wish to give pleasure to his readers, were to describe only honest mayors, high-minded ladies, and virtuous railroad contractors.
Quotes about contractors (16 Quotes)
There was no evidence that they had a relationship or that (Love) treated Clay any different from other contractors. You're not charged to find whether (the authority) could be run better, but whether there was any criminal action by Love.
This outage was an outstanding example of Nine Mile Point's ability to successfully execute a key component of our overall business plan. Our team executed our plan superbly, meeting or exceeding our goals in the areas of safety, duration and budget. The credit for this success goes to our employees, vendors and contractors. It was their ability to work as a cohesive team that generated such a strongly aligned critical mass that delivered upon what they said they could do. It was inspiring to see such creativity from so many people. This is a significant achievement for Nine Mile Point and Constellation Energy. In short, a well-executed outage matched by top performance amongst industry peers.
I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.
The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
We wanted to make sure all questions federal highway had were answered and also (that) we could answer questions proposed to us by contractors.
A board would also have to consider the skill and experience of the contractor and the contractor's ability to complete the work within the time required.
I'm struck by how this case involves impropriety with contractors and that means we need to pay special attention to it,
At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.
You can't assume contractors will automatically pass on higher costs.
NASA's financial management challenges impact its ability to not only prepare financial statements but, more importantly, to effectively manage its contractors and major programs.
The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.
At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program.
One of the reasons the U. S. economy is more dynamic than Europe's and Japan's is because we have foreigners who want to work here. In our area, immigration holds down the cost of farm goods and roof repair. And it increases the ability of contractors to respond more rapidly after a hurricane with lower prices.
But there's a lot of eyes out there now, with the (Army) Corps of Engineers and all the contractors, so I suspect if something happened again, we'd know pretty soon, ... Then we'd get busy mobilizing our people.
The host of contractors, speculators, stockjobbers and lobby members which haunt the halls of Congress, all dersious . . . to get their arm into the public treasury, are sufficient to alarm every friend of this country. Their progress must be arrested.