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  • After public criticism of its management of the disastrous Big Dig project in Boston, the federal government is now dropping contracting giant Bechtel from a project to build a high-tech children†™ s hospital in Iraq “after the project fell nearly a year behind schedule and exceeded its expected cost by as much as 150 percent.”

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: July 28, 2006 2006

  • The "pitch" to mp3 blogs, "was part of an ambitious online campaign that was the work of Robin Bechtel, vice president for new media at Warner Brothers and Reprise Records," says the NYT.

    MP3 Spam 2004

  • Still, there seems to have been less than full coordination between Bechtel, which is responsible for electricity, and Halliburton, which has an open-ended contract to secure fuel: Halliburton says it has not been asked to supply fuel for restarting the refineries.

    The $87 Billion Money Pit 2007

  • Jane Mayer of The New Yorker writes about the connections of Bechtel, the Bin Laden Group/family, and Bush, and past, administration officials, The bin Ladens have a ten-million-dollar stake in the Fremont Group, a San Francisco-based company formerly called Bechtel Investments, which was until 1986 a subsidiary of Bechtel.

    Firedoglake » Friends in High Places 2006

  • SunPower developed the power plant, and will complete the project's design and construction, working with Bechtel, which is providing balance of plant engineering and procurement services and construction services.

    unknown title 2011

  • In The Killer Within, Princeton sociologist Katherine Newman, who has studied the school shooters at Columbine and elsewhere, calls Bechtel's case "hauntingly familiar."

    The Clog 2010

  • In The Killer Within, Princeton sociologist Katherine Newman, who has studied the school shooters at Columbine and elsewhere, calls Bechtel's case "hauntingly familiar."

    The Clog 2009

  • Despite the billions of dollars Congress has allocated for reconstruction efforts, contractors such as Bechtel and KBR have failed to restore electricity or access to safe water to pre-invasion levels.

    Anthony Arnove: My Testimony to the Out Now Caucus 2008

  • For example, North American and European water companies, scouring the globe for water, such as Bechtel in Bolivia.

    Paige Donner: Greening Hollywood: "Globalization on Acid" Is Sleep Dealer's Theme 2008

  • Bechtel's Work in IraqYour Feb. 7 article "A Grim March of Missteps" blames the growth in Iraqi unemployment on "painfully slow reconstruction run by giant corporations such as Bechtel that generated more jobs for Americans than for Iraqis."

    MAIL CALL 2007

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