An article in the metro section of today's New York Times reports on fears by "four of the city's largest contractors" that they may be tossed off the job at Ground Zero when the city brings in the Bechtel Group from San Francisco to manage the project.
The Times reports in the last paragraph of the article, "Truth be told, of the four companies at the site, only Tully Construction is a New York-owned-and-operated company. Turner is based in Dallas. Bovis is owned by an Australian company and Amec is a New York company that was bought by a British company, although these three are all far more active in New York than Bechtel."
It's hard to believe that all three of those companies are "far more active in New York than Bechtel." The Times article doesn't mention at all the fact that Bechtel is managing the $1.5 billion contract to build a light rail link to John F. Kennedy Airport. Those other companies do a lot of work in New York, but they'd have to be doing an awful lot of work to be "far" more active than a company with a $1.5 billion ongoing project.
A more interesting angle than how much work Bechtel does in New York would be how much work it does in the Persian Gulf.
Can't Spell: A dispatch from Athens in the international section of today's New York Times refers to "L. Paul Bremmer, a former diplomat who headed a Congressional inquiry into fighting terrorism." Ambassador Bremer spells his last name with one "m," not two.
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